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October 19 is the birthday of city planner #LewisMumford who we #quote and back with a picture of the area around the #KansasCity stadiums. If this #quotograph speaks to you, please repost it.
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Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times by Aaron Sachs
Celebrate the birthday of #LewisMumford with Up from the Depths, a Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography and a double #biography of Herman Melville and Lewis Mumford.
Save 70% with code SHOP70 (exclusions apply): press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
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“The city devours its own organs,” Mumford warned. Today, it does so with spreadsheets, not bulldozers alone.
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Mécanismes de contrôle oligarchique dans la mégamachine moderne : de Mumford à Scheidler
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Mécanismes de contrôle oligarchique dans la mégamachine moderne : de Mumford à Scheidler
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#LewisMumford ...technologies great weakness: the defects of a system that, unlike organic systems, has no built-in method of controlling its growth or modulating the enormous engergy it commands in order to maintain, as any living organism must, a dynamic equilibrium favorable to life. (1970)
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#LewisMumford ...it was not as a biologist but as a mythologists that Darwin triumphed: he lent to the brutal assertion of class, nation, and race the support of a holy "scientific" dogma. The industrial world was flattered to find its own reflections in this mythical black tarn of nature... (1944)
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#LewisMumford Here lay the secret of Darwin's great popular influence: his theory of natural selection sanctified the brutality of industrialism and gave a fresh impulse to the imperialism of the "superior" races that succeeded it. (1944)
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#LewisMumford ...we have achieved the magic formula for automatically increasing the supply of scientific knowledge; but we have forgotten the Master Magician's formula for regulating or halting the flood, and so are on the point of drowning in it (1961)
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#LewisMumford Mark Twain praised the typewriter because it promised to save paper; but it would be quite as just to condemn it because it increased the tempatation to waste it...
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#LewisMumford The general argument against the individual appropriation of rent for the use of common utilities does not apply only to water power or coal...: it applies equally to other common factors like the social heritage itself... (1931)
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#LewisMumford: "...the Cathedral was more than the stone bible of mankind, as Victor Hugo was fianlly to call it; for it was likewise the Grand Encyclopedia: the sum of medieval knowledge as well as medieval faith." (1944)
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#LewisMumford: "The most disasterous result of authomation... is that its final product is ... Organization Man: he who takes all his orders from the system...and...cannot conceive of any departure ... for the sake of creating a more intelligent, purposeful, humanly rewarding mode of life." (1964)
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#LewisMumford: "...all automatic systems are closed and limited - even those computers that are capable of learning through further use of the material already provided. By reason of its very nature no computer can be as welathy in life-experience and tested information as a great city." (1964).
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“In a #society that knows no other ideals, #spending becomes the chief source of delight: finally, it amounts to a social duty.” #LewisMumford, Technics and Civilization.
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“( #LeonardodaVinci) suppressed the invention of the #submarine because he felt, as he explained in his notebook, it was too satanic to be placed in the hands of unregenerate men.” - #LewisMumford, Technics and Civilization
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“The #mine is nothing less than the concrete model of the conceptual world which was built up by the physicists of the seventeenth century.” #LewisMumford, Technics and Civilization.
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"The power that was #science and the power that was #money were, in the final analysis, the same kind of #power: the power of #abstraction, #measurement, #quantification." - #LewisMumford, Technics and Civilization
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“ #Space and #time, like #language itself, are works of art, and like language they help condition and direct practical action.” - #LewisMumford, Technics and Civilization
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“he who does not see choice in the development of the machine merely betrays his incapacity to observe cumulative effects until they are bunched together so closely they seem completely external and impersonal.” - #LewisMumford, Tecnics and Civilization
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« One of the marks of maturity is the need for solitude: a city should not merely draw men together in many varied activities, but should permit each person to find, near at hand, moments of seclusion and peace. »
― Lewis Mumford
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« The fundamental values of a true community are elsewhere: in love, poetry, disinterested thought, the free use of the imagination, the pursuit of non-utilitarian activities… »
― Lewis Mumford
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« A community whose life is not irrigated by art and science, by religion and philosophy, day upon day, is a community that exists half alive. »
― Lewis Mumford
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« The aggregation of the spiritual life from the practical life is a curse that falls impartially upon both sides of our existence. A society that gives to one class all the opportunities… »
— Lewis Mumford
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