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The story of Utopias

by Lewis Mumford · first published 1922

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  • max_ · Jan 19, 2024 · Recommends

    Lewis Mumford's Books; - Technics & Civilization - The Culture of Cities - The Story of Utopias Lewis Mumford talks about technology, but from an anthropological pint of view. Another book I would recommend is The Nature of Technology by Brian Arthur The other I would recommend is James Burk's…

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  • DyslexicAtheist · Feb 5, 2019 · Recommends

    …Sokal, Alan D "Intellectual Impostures" - Simon Herbert "A The Sciences of the Artificial" - Herbert Marcuse "One-Dimensional Man" - Schopenhauer "Parerga and Paralipomena" - Lewis Mumford "The Story of Utopias" - Michel Foucault "Discipline and Punish" - Edward S. Herman "Manufacturing Consent - The Political Economy of the Mass Media" - Franklin Foer "World Without Mind The Existential Threat of Big…

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  • DyslexicAtheist · May 12, 2020 · Recommends

    …Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror" https://www.amazon.com/Conspiracy-against-Human-Race-Contriv... 11) Plato "The Republic": https://archive.org/details/PlatoRepublic/mode/2up 12) Lewis Mumford "The Story of Utopias": https://archive.org/details/storyutopias00mumfgoog/page/n9/m... 13) the major works of: Kant, Schopenhauer, Hegel, Nietzsche, Marx, Foucault, Chomsky, Zizek Short: - Peter Wessel Zapffe "The Last…

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