The Pentagon of PowerIn this concluding volume of The Myth of the Machine, Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress. Far from being an attack on science and technics, The Pentagon of Power seeks to establish a more organic social order based on technological resources. Index; photographs. |
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... noösphere . At this point conscious existence will have shifted to a kind of ectoplasmic super - brain , all - knowing , all - powerful . In creating this far - from - loving God , man will have de - created Nature and destroyed himself ...
... noösphere . At this point conscious existence will have shifted to a kind of ectoplasmic super - brain , all - knowing , all - powerful . In creating this far - from - loving God , man will have de - created Nature and destroyed himself ...
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... noösphere would function as a single world - brain , in which individual souls would lose their identity and forfeit their uniqueness as self - directing organisms in order to exalt and magnify the process of thought itself - thought ...
... noösphere would function as a single world - brain , in which individual souls would lose their identity and forfeit their uniqueness as self - directing organisms in order to exalt and magnify the process of thought itself - thought ...
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... noösphere from which the body and form of love has disappeared , or has been vaporized into messages ? Teilhard de Chardin deceived himself . The noösphere , as he conceived it , has no place for love , any more than it has for the ...
... noösphere from which the body and form of love has disappeared , or has been vaporized into messages ? Teilhard de Chardin deceived himself . The noösphere , as he conceived it , has no place for love , any more than it has for the ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
Copyright | |
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