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Pentagon Of Power: The Myth Of The Machine, Vol. II Paperback – March 20, 1974

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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.
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  • GK
    5.0 out of 5 stars More applicable today than the day it was written.
    Reviewed in the United States on January 4, 2020
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    Rereading Lewis Mumford after decades has reminded me of where the seeds of my current thinking were first planted. Mumford points out how we have become trapped in artificial systems we have accepted as natural to the detriment of human fulfillment. Unfortunately most were not listening to his words 40 to 50 years ago thus we have continued on our errant ways. Lewis Mumford needs to be read today with open minds and the goal of human improvement not system preservation.
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  • cloud2013
    5.0 out of 5 stars Best of Late Mumford
    Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2013
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    Mumford was pretty conservative (in the traditional not neo-con sense) in his later years. This is a strong analysis of the decadence of the second half of the 20th Century. One should be well grounded in early works by Mumford to get the full value of this book.
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  • Neal Ekengren
    4.0 out of 5 stars Dense
    Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2014
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    This is my first Mumford reading. I have to say the guy is brilliant. Excellent writing and very inciteful. This book is very long and dense. You really can savor a couple pages and let it sink in before continuing on. There is lots of philosophy here that I have never thought about in the way Mumford has.

    I'm giving 4 stars for a couple reasons. The first is that I think he is just plain wrong on some things. He keeps forgiving past scientific achievers for "they know not what they did" with respect to impacts on society. Really a stretch on some points and it gets old after reading the Galileo, Copernicus, etc. were all just so blind to their own impacts.

    The other reason is that the totality of the book is difficult to get through. Pick any paragraph and it is written extremely well. But keep going and your mind starts to wander with the verbal torrent that continues to gush. It just feels difficult to connect with for me.
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  • w. c. manson
    5.0 out of 5 stars prophet of the 21st century totalistic-technocratic order
    Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2021
    Writing in 1970, what did Mumford foresee for the cybernetic century to come? The individual would become a "trivial accessory to the machine." Massive data-collection and surveillance systems would monitor every "individual on the planet." People, "losing confidence in their own unaided capacities," would "meekly submit to every new technological demand" and "mindlessly accept the latest gadgets." Mumford's dystopian predictions, written in defense of threatened individual free will, proved quite prescient (and, if anything. understated the magnitude of technological control and constriction of human autonomy we submit to now). See my brief article, "Prophet of Techno-Servitude," at: dissidentvoice.org.
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  • Sean, seanbrasil@lycos.com
    5.0 out of 5 stars Rage Against the Mega-Machine
    Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2001
    Nobody writes like this anymore. I hadn't expected the eminent urban historian to write such a brilliant paranoiac tract against the System and Established Order. Although often redundant, Mumford makes a heroic attempt at explaining the current problems of our times, with roots in the Middle Ages, and perhaps even the Age of the Pyramids. He echoes contempories like Herbert Marcuse, Erich Fromm and Marshall McLuhan, but instead of taking a Marxist, psychological or media perspective, he takes the more general view of an urbanist. The arguments are quite paralell, although considerably more holistic at times. One recognizes critiques that were earlier or later articulated by not only Marxists, but also feminists, environmentalists, and anti-Imperialists. There are also anticipations of the New Age Movement! (See Fitjof Capra's "the Turning Point.")In short, this massive volume impressively combines much historical and cultural material in its critique of Modern Western Civilization. Although the tone of the book is quite bleak -- we would all appear to be trapped in this Megamachine, the High Technology of the Power Elites -- one also senses a hope towards last chapters that an alternative is possible. He seems to suggest a New Age style withdrawal, rather than any kind of organized resistance. Draw your own conclusions.
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  • Manuel Campagna
    5.0 out of 5 stars Je le lirai.
    Reviewed in Canada on September 22, 2024
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    Je n'ai pas encore lu le livre mais le volume me plaît et est conforme à la publicité.
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  • Jamie B
    5.0 out of 5 stars Visionary
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 9, 2018
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    Anyone who enjoys Yuval Noah Harari, which as far as I can tell is almost everyone, will love this book. It is significantly more insightful and visionary than anything written on the subject of technology and society today.
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