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Showing papers on "Dystopia published in 1976"


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TL;DR: In their baser manifestations, these new forces would curb socialism; in their most humane aspects, they would add to its mechanical futurism a certain element it had always lacked as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Emotions and feelings that the philosophers of the machine had neglected or despised, were now reasserting themselves above all, the trunk of the past, which had been cut down, was now sending up numerous suckers, suckers infested with grubs and covered by fungus almost before they had left the ground. In their baser manifestations, these new forces would curb socialism; in their most humane aspects, they would add to its mechanical futurism a certain element it had always lacked. Lewis Mumford, The Condition ofMan

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