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

Speaking of mirrors, your piece reminded me of Lewis Mumford's brilliant pages, in Technics and Civilization, on the widespread introduction of mirrors in the 17th century. I recently re-read Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization. Lewis Mumford wrote extensively about this topic, especially in The Pentagon of Power, and Technics and Civilization. Mumford was a communist which he does not admit until about page 450 although it is obvious early on. 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. Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization helps contextualize Marcuse's fundamental ideas. 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. €�To understand the dominating role played by technics in modern civilization, one must explore in detail the preliminary period of ideological and social preparation. Week 7: Technics and… November 3rd, 2011 by Will Patera. Technics and Civilization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. €�The Monastery and the Clock”, inTechnics and Civilization, 1934, pp 12-18. Beginning with Oswald Spengler's Man and Technics in 1931 and Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization in 1934. Ecology in the Making (and Unmaking) of Feudal Civilization. It is a great book and many ways still feels current and full of energy. In Technics and Civilization, Mumford observed that 'the first mark of paleotechnic industry was the pollution of the air' (Mumford, 1936: 167).