WEEK 1 Views:
Mumford, Lewis. "Cultural Preparation", in Technical ycivilización . Madrid, Alianza Editorial, 1982.
1) What, according to Mumford, the historical elements of the constitution today's society as a "mechanical universe? What elements are displaced in this process?
2) Give at least three specific examples of Mumford the following statement: "Our civilization represents the convergence of many habits, ideas and lifestyles, as well as technical tools, and some of them were, at first, directly opposite civilization they helped create. "
4) Why does Lewis Mumford was the clock, not the steam engine, the key machine of the industrial age?
5) What does it mean that "the categories of time and space experienced extraordinary change? What changes have occurred, specifically?
6) Consider the following sentence from Mumford: "A certain features of private capitalism had the machine, which was a neutral agent, has often seemed, and indeed has been at times, an evil element in society" (p. 70). What does it mean that the machine "was a neutral agent?
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