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Technics and Civilization Lewis Mumford
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC

The city in history: its origins, its transformations, and its prospects. { This is a history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization. To me these works contained strange doctrines for that time—critiques of modem industrialism, and in Borsodi's case, of modem farming. In Mumford's great book Technics and Civilization, he shows how, beginning in the fourteenth century, the clock made us into time-keepers, and then time-savers, and now time-servers. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co. €�Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class was written 100 years ahead of its time.” Was I interested in “collaborating on an essay reinterpreting Mumford's Technics and Civilization for the post-industrial, age of information?”. Machine, Metaphor, and the Writer: A Jungian View. Lewis Mumford pointed out the dehumanising effects of this way of working in the 1920 in his book Technics and Civilization, and E F Schumacher's Good Work makes a similar case. Mumford's 1934 Technics and Civilization echoed Spengler's title, while the portentous clash of Man and Nature, and technology and human nature, received a central place in his writing from that time on. I found Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford and This Ugly Civilization By Ralph Borsodi. €�To understand the dominating role played by technics in modern civilization, one must explore in detail the preliminary period of ideological and social preparation. Mumford has drawn on every aspect of life to explain the machine and to trace its social results. €�Capitalism utilize the machine not to further social welfare, but to increase private profit.” Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization, 1934.