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Technics and Civilization Lewis Mumford
Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul PLC

Mumford's 1934 Technics and Civilization echoed Spengler's title, while the portentous clash of Man and Nature, and technology and human nature, received a central place in his writing from that time on. To me these works contained strange doctrines for that time—critiques of modem industrialism, and in Borsodi's case, of modem farming. Before that, engineers were artists, and vice versa. Ecology in the Making (and Unmaking) of Feudal Civilization. Seriously, though, I just read today in Mumford's “Technics and Civilization” about the connection between technique/technology and capitalism — very close parallels to your insights. I found Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford and This Ugly Civilization By Ralph Borsodi. Lewis Mumford wrote extensively about this topic, especially in The Pentagon of Power, and Technics and Civilization. Beginning with Oswald Spengler's Man and Technics in 1931 and Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization in 1934. Janice, I'll hire you as my marketer!! Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the World. Eisenstein quotes Mumford liberally. TechGnosis: Myth, Magic, and Mysticism in the Age of Information. Lewis Mumford, a critic and historian of technological civilization, has written that art and engineering were separated in the fourteenth century. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. €�The Monastery and the Clock”, inTechnics and Civilization, 1934, pp 12-18. Week 7: Technics and… November 3rd, 2011 by Will Patera. It is a great book and many ways still feels current and full of energy.