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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... ultimate success . What distinguishes the system of the logical abstractions developed by the scholastics from those that scientists later developed was that the real world , for the medieval mind , was the invisible one : that toward ...
... ultimate success . What distinguishes the system of the logical abstractions developed by the scholastics from those that scientists later developed was that the real world , for the medieval mind , was the invisible one : that toward ...
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... ultimate ' particles elude direct observation : so what is innermost and inaccessible , even in physics , cannot be said to be unreal , much less may it be called wholly subjective , however well pre- served its secret . In short ...
... ultimate ' particles elude direct observation : so what is innermost and inaccessible , even in physics , cannot be said to be unreal , much less may it be called wholly subjective , however well pre- served its secret . In short ...
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... ultimate goals are now at last visible . First : he who creates a perfect automaton is in fact creating life , since , according to mechanistic doctrine , there is no essential difference between living organisms and machines , provided ...
... ultimate goals are now at last visible . First : he who creates a perfect automaton is in fact creating life , since , according to mechanistic doctrine , there is no essential difference between living organisms and machines , provided ...
Contents
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM AND REGIMENTATION | 77 |
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