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

I'm rereading Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization. Authoritarian technics, on the other hand, are inherently system-centered in that they require a high degree of organization and social control. Beginning with Oswald Spengler's Man and Technics in 1931 and Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization in 1934. Lewis Mumford, in Technics and Civilization, divided the progress of technological development since late medieval times into three considerably overlapping periods (or phases): the eotechnic, paleotechnic, and neotechnic. I think I was reading Jeremy Stolow's Deus in Machina, and Mumford's name keeps popping up, in a good way. I was more radical and so much younger then. Major Activities in the 1930s: Mumford published Technics and Civilizations, one of his most renowned works, which outlines the history and influence of technology upon society. Janice, I'll hire you as my marketer!! The scene seems like a Japanese screen adaptation of Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization at times, with the village as a metaphor for the civility and balance of the early eotechnic era. I think I studied it originally almost thirty or more years ago. Seriously, though, I just read today in Mumford's “Technics and Civilization” about the connection between technique/technology and capitalism — very close parallels to your insights. A public intellectual: Lewis Mumford, for One. The English term, technics, is probably best known through its use by the theorist of technology Lewis Mumford, who first uses it in his 1934 book Technics and Civilization. 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. Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization helps contextualize Marcuse's fundamental ideas. Am just finishing Lewis Mumford's Technics & Civilization, a classic from 1930 that still has a lot of punch. Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford. 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. Mumford was a bit premature in Technics and Civilization in 1934 when he wrote that “Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.