Cover of The Pentagon of Power (The Myth of the Machine, Vol 2)

The Pentagon of Power (The Myth of the Machine, Vol 2)

In 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.

Themes
technology
Audience
adult
Length
long · 544 pages

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