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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... totalitarian features that Bulwer - Lytton shrank from . Bel- lamy , indeed , was so enamored of the economic potentialities of large - scale organization and mechanization , as in an army , that he did not hesitate to accept military ...
... totalitarian features that Bulwer - Lytton shrank from . Bel- lamy , indeed , was so enamored of the economic potentialities of large - scale organization and mechanization , as in an army , that he did not hesitate to accept military ...
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... totalitarian mechanism , without also destroying the scientific insights and the technical capacities that helped to bring it into existence . Well did Emerson observe in 1832 , as if in anticipa- tion of our present terrors and ...
... totalitarian mechanism , without also destroying the scientific insights and the technical capacities that helped to bring it into existence . Well did Emerson observe in 1832 , as if in anticipa- tion of our present terrors and ...
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... totalitarian , 233 , 249 Totalitarian mass extermination , 233 , 249 Totalitarian system , 264 ; Nemesis of , 250 ; new equipment for , 248-249 Totalitarian utopia , Cabet's , 213 Totalitarianism , Teilhard de Chardin's praise of , 318 ...
... totalitarian , 233 , 249 Totalitarian mass extermination , 233 , 249 Totalitarian system , 264 ; Nemesis of , 250 ; new equipment for , 248-249 Totalitarian utopia , Cabet's , 213 Totalitarianism , Teilhard de Chardin's praise of , 318 ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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