Technics and Civilization A Review by Alan Danesh – Part One TECHNICS AND CIVILIZATION By Lewis Mumford ROUTLEDGE & KEGAN PAUL LTD London “Published in 1934, Lewis Mumford’s Technics and Civilization remains a foundational masterpiece in science and technology studies, offering a sweeping historical narrative and an urgent polemic against technological determinism. Writing well before
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A Review By Alan Danesh Technopoly The Surrender of Culture to Technology By Neil Postman Vintage Books A Division of Random House, Inc. FIRST VINTAGE BOOKS EDITION, APRIL 1993 Copyright © 1992 by Neil Postman _______________________________________________________________________________________________ “Whether or not it draws on new scientific research, technology is a branch of moral philosophy, not of science.”
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Editor’s note: This piece was originally published on October 9th in the Epoch Times. Social media is less censored than it was a few years ago, corporations are more hesitant to take divisive political stances, and the public is more emboldened to voice unorthodox views. Yet key institutions such as schools and government bureaucracies are
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The Coming Dark Age___A Review By Alan Danesh The Coming Dark Age By Roberto Vacca Panther Books Ltd. Great Britain 1974 ____________________________________________________________________________ Introduction: Roberto Vacca is one of Europe’s foremost computer and electronic systems authorities. He is an Engineering Faculty member of the University of Rome and a former Visiting Fellow at the Universities of
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Democracies, we are told, are governed with the consent of the people who constitute the sovereign power in modern democracies. This is merely an illusion. As Professors Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman document the processes governing modern democracies in their monumental work, Manufacturing Consent, deception and modern propaganda totally shape public opinion and lead citizens of
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The following are selections from Professor Noam Chomsky’s Media Control. We quote directly from his book in order to retain the clarity and the frank tone of his writing. **************** “The role of the media in contemporary politics forces us to ask what kind of a world and what kind of a society we want to live
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In the following essay I attempt to summarize Jacques Ellul’s complex work –The Technological Society – by bringing together selections which, combined together, constitute the highlights of his monumental work. By the end of reading it becomes clear how humans are made to adapt to Technique rather than Technique adapting to human needs. “In The Technological Society, Jacques Ellul
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Propaganda, by whatever name we may call it, has become a very general phenomenon in the modern world. Differences in political regimes matter little. “Propaganda exists and thrives; it is the Siamese twin of our technological society. Only in the technological society can there be anything of the type and order of magnitude of modern
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The Parasitic Mind How infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense By Gad Saad Regency Publishing, October 6, 2020 225 pages (digital edition) The author is an evolutionary behavioural scientist and university professor who has broadly observed the spread of the nefarious Wokism parasite throughout the West and is alarmed by the damage the infection is
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On the 10th of June, Samuel de Champlain’s statue was hauled in dishonour from Orillia’s Couchiching Beach Park. Father of New France and founder of Quebec City, Champlain is among the most influential figures in the seeding of modern Canada. An explorer, cartographer, administrator, and diplomat, Champlain sought to make Quebec an established and powerful
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