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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... power complex originally had their place and performed their indispen- sable functions . What the power complex did was to wrench these separate components from their organic matrix and enclose them in an isolated sub- system centered ...
... power complex originally had their place and performed their indispen- sable functions . What the power complex did was to wrench these separate components from their organic matrix and enclose them in an isolated sub- system centered ...
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... power system : it indicates , not a desirable end , accommoda- tion , but a pathological aberration , re - enforced by such rewards as this system bestows . As for the climactic notion that " the universe will be man's at last " -what ...
... power system : it indicates , not a desirable end , accommoda- tion , but a pathological aberration , re - enforced by such rewards as this system bestows . As for the climactic notion that " the universe will be man's at last " -what ...
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... power system . If we dare to forestall the ugly future that the prophets of megatechnics predict , if we reject their sterile bureau- cratic utopias , it is because we propose to base our alternative economy on a more adequate model ...
... power system . If we dare to forestall the ugly future that the prophets of megatechnics predict , if we reject their sterile bureau- cratic utopias , it is because we propose to base our alternative economy on a more adequate model ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
Copyright | |
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