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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.

LEWIS MUMFORD, Technics and Civilization

The machine itself ... is a human product, and its very abstractions make it more definitely human in one sense than those human arts which on occasion realistically counterfit nature.

LEWIS MUMFORD, Technics and Civilization

The machine is no longer the paragon of progress and the final expression of our desires: it is merely a series of instruments, which we will use in so far as they are serviceable to life at large, and which we will curtail where they infringe upon it or exist purely to support the adventitious structure of capitalism.

LEWIS MUMFORD, Technics and Civilization

On one side is the gigantic printing press, a miracle of fine articulation, which turns out the tabloid newspaper: on the other side are the contents of the tabloid itself, symbolically recording the most crude and elementary states of emotion.

LEWIS MUMFORD, Technics and Civilization


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