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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... TECHNICAL LIBERATION However slow in pace , pre - mechanized industry and agriculture relied so largely on manual labor that this gave it a freedom and flexibility that a system more dependent upon a permanent assemblage of specialized ...
... TECHNICAL LIBERATION However slow in pace , pre - mechanized industry and agriculture relied so largely on manual labor that this gave it a freedom and flexibility that a system more dependent upon a permanent assemblage of specialized ...
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... technical triumph , which distin- guished him from other tool - using and nest - building animals . Athletic exhibition- ism ranges from the feats of Hindu yogins in regulating human breathing and heartbeat to Charles Blondin's ...
... technical triumph , which distin- guished him from other tool - using and nest - building animals . Athletic exhibition- ism ranges from the feats of Hindu yogins in regulating human breathing and heartbeat to Charles Blondin's ...
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... Technical advances , misreading of , 145 Technical development , case for , 195 Technical heritage , belated preservation of , 156 Technical improvements , foreign origins of , 132 Technical innovations , liberating influence of , 237 ...
... Technical advances , misreading of , 145 Technical development , case for , 195 Technical heritage , belated preservation of , 156 Technical improvements , foreign origins of , 132 Technical innovations , liberating influence of , 237 ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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