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

I'm rereading Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization. The English term, technics, is probably best known through its use by the theorist of technology Lewis Mumford, who first uses it in his 1934 book Technics and Civilization. Eisenstein quotes Mumford liberally. 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. Prescient work by a man in touch with his time. "However far modern science and technics have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson: Nothing is impossible." Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization, 1934. Lewis Mumford makes the early 1900s look an awfully lot like the late 1900s. Mumford was a communist which he does not admit until about page 450 although it is obvious early on. Harcourt, Brace, and World, New York, 1934. I was more radical and so much younger then. And he wasn't even trying to do so. A public intellectual: Lewis Mumford, for One. €�Can Earth system interactions be governed? Oswald Spengler's 1931 Man and Technics was already old hat, with it's pessimistic view of technology and industrialization. I think I studied it originally almost thirty or more years ago. I grew up in the Jacques Elluh generation. I recently re-read Lewis Mumford's Technics and Civilization. The city in history: its origins, its transformations, and its prospects.