Technics And Civilization

Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226550273
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technics and Civilization written by Lewis Mumford and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technics and Civilization first presented its compelling history of the machine and critical study of its effects on civilization in 1934—before television, the personal computer, and the Internet even appeared on our periphery. Drawing upon art, science, philosophy, and the history of culture, Lewis Mumford explained the origin of the machine age and traced its social results, asserting that the development of modern technology had its roots in the Middle Ages rather than the Industrial Revolution. Mumford sagely argued that it was the moral, economic, and political choices we made, not the machines that we used, that determined our then industrially driven economy. Equal parts powerful history and polemic criticism, Technics and Civilization was the first comprehensive attempt in English to portray the development of the machine age over the last thousand years—and to predict the pull the technological still holds over us today. “The questions posed in the first paragraph of Technics and Civilization still deserve our attention, nearly three quarters of a century after they were written.”—Journal of Technology and Culture

Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher : Peter Smith Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780844661155
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Technics and Civilization written by Lewis Mumford and published by Peter Smith Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization. Mumford has drawn on every aspect of life to explain the machine and to trace its social results. "An extraordinarily wide-ranging, sensitive, and provocative book about a subject upon which philosophers have so far shed but little light" (Journal of Philosophy). Index; illustrations.

Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231121057
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art and Technics written by Lewis Mumford and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lewis Mumford was the author of more than thirty influential books, many of which expounded his views on the perils of urban sprawl and a society obsessed with technics. This text provides the essence of Mumford's views on the distinct yet interpenetrating roles of technology and the arts in modern culture.

Author : Oswald Spengler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351980947
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Revivals: Man and Technics (1932) written by Oswald Spengler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1932, this book, based on an address delivered in 1931, presents a concise and lucid summary of the philosophy of the author of The Decline of the West, Oswald Spengler. It was his conviction that the technical age — the culture of the machine age — which man had created in virtue of his unique capacity for individual as well as racial technique, had already reached its peak, and that the future held only catastrophe. He argued it lacked progressive cultural life and instead was dominated by a lust for power and possession. The triumph of the machine led to mass regimentation rather than fewer workers and less work — spelling the doom of Western civilization.

Author : Bob Ostertag
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781629638300
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat written by Bob Ostertag and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facebooking the Anthropocene in Raja Ampat is a deeply intimate look at the cataclysmic shifts between humans, technology, and the so-called natural world. Amid the breakneck pace of both technological advance and environmental collapse, Robert Ostertag explores how we ourselves are changing as fast as the world around us--from how we make music, to how we have sex, to what we do to survive, and who we imagine ourselves to be. And though the environmental crisis terrifies and technology overwhelms, Ostertag finds enough creativity, compassion, and humor in our evolving behavior to keep us laughing and inspired as the world we are building overtakes the world we found. A true polymath who covered the wars in Central America during the 1980s, recorded dozens of music projects, and published books on startlingly eclectic subjects, Ostertag fuses his travels as a touring musician with his journalist's eye for detail and the long view of a historian. Wander both the physical and the intellectual world with him. Watch Buddhist monks take selfies while meditating and DJs who make millions of dollars pretend to turn knobs in front of crowds of thousands. Shiver with families huddling through the stinging Detroit winter without heat or electricity. Meet Spice Islanders who have never seen flushing toilets yet have gay hookup apps on their phones. Our best writers have struggled with how to address the catastrophes of our time without looking away. Ostertag succeeds where others have failed, with the moral acuity of Susan Sontag, the technological savvy of Lewis Mumford, and the biting humor of Jonathan Swift.

Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher : New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of the Machine: Technics and human development written by Lewis Mumford and published by New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. This book was released on 1967 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For contents, see Author Catalog.

Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780156623414
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book The Myth of the Machine: The pentagon of power written by Lewis Mumford and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Oswald Spengler
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195066340
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Decline of the West written by Oswald Spengler and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1991 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spengler's work describes how we have entered into a centuries-long "world-historical" phase comparable to late antiquity, and his controversial ideas spark debate over the meaning of historiography.

Author : Lewis Mumford
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156180351
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City in History written by Lewis Mumford and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1961 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city's development from ancient times to the modern age. Winner of the National Book Award. "One of the major works of scholarship of the twentieth century" (Christian Science Monitor). Index; illustrations.