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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... physical causes . My aim is to show that the celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather ... physical ' events . To know more about the behavior of a physical system one must isolate it , disorganize it , and ...
... physical causes . My aim is to show that the celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather ... physical ' events . To know more about the behavior of a physical system one must isolate it , disorganize it , and ...
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... physical effects that we come to the First Cause ; and this , he added , “ is certainly not mechanical . " If I dare amend that statement in order to apply it , not to the physical universe but to human affairs , it would be by finding ...
... physical effects that we come to the First Cause ; and this , he added , “ is certainly not mechanical . " If I dare amend that statement in order to apply it , not to the physical universe but to human affairs , it would be by finding ...
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... Physical events , scientific clarification of , 67 Physical objects , abstract world of , 56 Physical organs , elimination of , 187 Physical phenomena , 17th - century con- ception of , 59 Physical world , abstract conception of , 67 ...
... Physical events , scientific clarification of , 67 Physical objects , abstract world of , 56 Physical organs , elimination of , 187 Physical phenomena , 17th - century con- ception of , 59 Physical world , abstract conception of , 67 ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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