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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... possible failures . Like the artist in ' Rasselas , ' he might have said : " Nothing will ever be attempted , if all possible objections must be first overcome . " That this extravagant dream was not so easily translated into the prac ...
... possible failures . Like the artist in ' Rasselas , ' he might have said : " Nothing will ever be attempted , if all possible objections must be first overcome . " That this extravagant dream was not so easily translated into the prac ...
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... possible only between people who share a common culture — and speak the same language ; and though this area can and should be enlarged by per- sonally acquiring more languages and extending one's cultural horizon through travel and ...
... possible only between people who share a common culture — and speak the same language ; and though this area can and should be enlarged by per- sonally acquiring more languages and extending one's cultural horizon through travel and ...
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... possible destinations bear the least possible resem- blance to those organically rich habitats in which life and mind have actually flourished . To justify space travel , its exponents must brazenly vilify earthly life . And this is ...
... possible destinations bear the least possible resem- blance to those organically rich habitats in which life and mind have actually flourished . To justify space travel , its exponents must brazenly vilify earthly life . And this is ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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