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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Page 97
... potentialities in our day , in the willingness , on the part of military and political strategists , to give to agents of extermination they have created - nuclear weapons , rockets , lethal poisons and bac- teria - the authority to ...
... potentialities in our day , in the willingness , on the part of military and political strategists , to give to agents of extermination they have created - nuclear weapons , rockets , lethal poisons and bac- teria - the authority to ...
Page 148
... potentialities in the computer makes the contemporary art exhibition shown here ( top ) , in all its pervasive blankness and artful nullity , an ideal representation of its missing dimensions . Those who are so fascinated by the ...
... potentialities in the computer makes the contemporary art exhibition shown here ( top ) , in all its pervasive blankness and artful nullity , an ideal representation of its missing dimensions . Those who are so fascinated by the ...
Page 319
... potentialities of life to those that can be conveniently processed and transmuted by its electronic God . In this the functions that could not be so processed - human histories , personal and collective artifacts , autonomous activities ...
... potentialities of life to those that can be conveniently processed and transmuted by its electronic God . In this the functions that could not be so processed - human histories , personal and collective artifacts , autonomous activities ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
Copyright | |
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