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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... society . Two years later they received a royal charter from Charles II . The earlier Accademia dei Lynxei , founded in Florence in 1603 , may have given Bacon his germinal idea , since he was invited to become a member . But in 1630 ...
... society . Two years later they received a royal charter from Charles II . The earlier Accademia dei Lynxei , founded in Florence in 1603 , may have given Bacon his germinal idea , since he was invited to become a member . But in 1630 ...
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... society , less ' perfect , ' and more free . " Once again , it is not the failures of mechanization , but its achievement of an effortless perfectionism that is in question ; and this makes it all the more imperative to look closely at ...
... society , less ' perfect , ' and more free . " Once again , it is not the failures of mechanization , but its achievement of an effortless perfectionism that is in question ; and this makes it all the more imperative to look closely at ...
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... Society , Its Structure and Changes . New York : 1932 . MacMunn , George . Slavery Through the Ages . London : 1938 . Inadequate presentation of a subject that has never , except for German studies of slavery in Greece and Rome ...
... Society , Its Structure and Changes . New York : 1932 . MacMunn , George . Slavery Through the Ages . London : 1938 . Inadequate presentation of a subject that has never , except for German studies of slavery in Greece and Rome ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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