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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... ABSOLUTISM Though Descartes was an assiduous scientific experimenter in more than one area , the cartesian method itself was most immediately applicable to ' physical , ' that is to pre - organic ... POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION.
... ABSOLUTISM Though Descartes was an assiduous scientific experimenter in more than one area , the cartesian method itself was most immediately applicable to ' physical , ' that is to pre - organic ... POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION.
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... political absolutism Descartes paved the way for the eventual militarization of both science and technics . Descartes did not perceive that the complex processes and singular events of history and ... POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION.
... political absolutism Descartes paved the way for the eventual militarization of both science and technics . Descartes did not perceive that the complex processes and singular events of history and ... POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION.
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... absolutism must not be forgotten . By accepting the machine as his model , and a single unifying mind as the source of absolute order , Descartes in effect ... political position in two books , ' 98 POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION.
... absolutism must not be forgotten . By accepting the machine as his model , and a single unifying mind as the source of absolute order , Descartes in effect ... political position in two books , ' 98 POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION.
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RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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