Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization - Part 1
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The Machine Rhythm Began With the Benedictines
Mumford: The machine rhythm began with the Benedictines and basically what they end up doing is setting the pace for the quantitative worldview. In this way the clock becomes the ultimate machine in relation to techniques it's the ultimate model of mechanism, he says. Mumford: We have that split human machine right machines in its own little world human doing its own little thing as well.
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