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Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization - Part 1

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Book Review - Agents of Mechanization

Mumford: Once the machine values overtake life values of real productive for productivity's sake the standardization commences from these like notions of standardization. At this point a material life supplants a holy life okay you now have the standardized life so you should go go for that goods become respectable in themselves means for the sake of means and really what we now see at the end of chapter two agents of mechanization is what we would now understand as a solidification of utilitarianism with almost in bed with the machine.

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