- Taschenbuch: 544 Seiten
- Verlag: Harvest/HBJ Book (Juni 1963)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 015688254X
- ISBN-13: 978-0156882545
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,1 x 13,7 x 2,8 cm
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Too bad Mumford wasn't a better thinker. He published everywhere and wrote on everything during a fifty-plus year career; urban planners know him best these days, but he was the New Yorker architecture critic for years and wrote on literature, culture, and politics for all the big magazines: MacCalls, Harper's, The New Republic, Seven Arts. Technics and Civilization (1934) wasn't his last book on technology; he returned to the subject again in The Pentagon of Power, two volumes, published around 1969. Technics and Civilization asks readers to consider intelligently how to better use technology to shape lives worth living, rather than to allow technology, or our use of it, to shape life unexaminedly. Mumford contributed so much to letters and to public life that we owe it to ourselves to read him, even if the limitations of his sometimes utopian ideas become too often apparent (remember, the Unabomber is a fan), because his ideas on social organizations are crack
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The First Critique of the Myth of Technology
24. November 2000
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Lewis Mumford is widely regarded as a critic of architecture, but his true importance in intellectual history is as a critic of technology and the myth of progress that accompanies technology, making it seem as if every technological advance is a step forward in civilization. That the events from 1945 onward dispute this claim would seem evident, but themselves are brushed over in favor of the prevailing paradigm.
Mumford was the first to take a critical look at technology and its accompanying mythos, and even though this book was later surpassed by his masterpiece, The Myth of the Machine, it is still worth reading for its approach to the tenor of its time (written during the Depression).
You can safely ignore the last chapters when Mumford attempts to offer an alternative to the technological society. Like most critics, he is mercifully short on alternatives. (Considering what alternatives were given humanity over the centuries, you can understand why I said that.) Until we truly understand technology and the role it has taken in our lives, we will be no closer to a solution than Mumford was in the Thirties.
For anyone who wishes to study the intellectual history of the West, this is an indispensible volume.
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Review of the 2010 University of Chicago Press Edition
8. November 2010
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Readers should be aware that the 2010 University of Chicago Press edition of Technics and Civilization omits Mumford's 15 pages of photographs. As an excuse they say that such a reproduction is neither "practical" nor "necessary," instead they provide a set of search terms that may or may not allow one to find each image on the Internet.
I am, to say the least, disappointed by this decision. 1) Given that most of these images are out of copyright and are readily available (if nothing else, one could simply scan them from an earlier edition of the book) what are the practical obstacles to reproduction? 2) The ability to interrupt one's reading to search for and possibly find a particular image on the Internet is hardly a viable substitute for having images embedded in the text.
I suggest that readers find an earlier, complete edition of this work, if possible.
I am, to say the least, disappointed by this decision. 1) Given that most of these images are out of copyright and are readily available (if nothing else, one could simply scan them from an earlier edition of the book) what are the practical obstacles to reproduction? 2) The ability to interrupt one's reading to search for and possibly find a particular image on the Internet is hardly a viable substitute for having images embedded in the text.
I suggest that readers find an earlier, complete edition of this work, if possible.
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Technics and Civilization, a vital 20th Century work
26. September 1998
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Mumford is widely considered the first modern person to write critically about the intricate relationship between human technology and human civilization. This book is arguably the cornerstone of the rapidly growing field of the history of technology. It is valuable because of its extensive attention to the past and its demonstration of complex links between technology, economics, society and culture. Mumford's musings about the future at the end of the book are its least important part.
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