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

He will discuss the final chapter of Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization. Technics and Civilization - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization [1934]: 3-106, 321-446 [available as e-book]. Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization (New York: Harcourt, 1934). He has considered such themes elsewhere. And he wasn't even trying to do so. In Technics & Civilization, among Mumford's other work, he develops a rich historical account of technological development. He will talk about the idea of “commonism,” or some institutions for an ecological and egalitarian society. The Paleotechnic period, first discussed in Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization, published in 1934, is the subject of the Coketown excerpt. Prescient work by a man in touch with his time. Lewis Mumford, in Technics and Civilization, divided the progress of technological development since late medieval times into three considerably overlapping periods (or phases): the eotechnic, paleotechnic, and neotechnic. Speaking of mirrors, your piece reminded me of Lewis Mumford's brilliant pages, in Technics and Civilization, on the widespread introduction of mirrors in the 17th century. Lewis Mumford makes the early 1900s look an awfully lot like the late 1900s. The city in history: its origins, its transformations, and its prospects. Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society [1954/1964]: 3-22, 64-162, 319-343, 412-436. Paleotechnic Paradise: Coketown - St.