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ohmyshambles: "Though each new invention or discovery may respond to some general human need, or even awaken a fresh human potentiality, it immediately becomes part of an articulated totalitarian system that, on its own premises, has turned the machine into a god" Lewis Mumford, 1965
joyfuljaay: of the past few years and see that the world is at a historic threshold. . . . It will change forever the way men live.” In a similar vein, the American writer Lewis Mumford said: “Civilization is going downhill. Very definitely. . . . In the past when civilizations went downhill
MtKelly62136: Protected status seems so easy to challenge and overide, always, always, always. Next a remote barren ground Wildlife Sanctuary? Seems NOTHING, from animals to earth to the birds of the air ever matter if minerals might be there. See "Techniques and Civilization" Lewis Mumford
DavidZipper: These Amsterdam parking spots (no guardrails!) remind me of Lewis Mumford'd description of what residents do if their car tumbles into a canal (from the 1950s).
Prisonplanet3: Good read:
Flower_Power_67: There is no ancestor so powerful as one’s earlier selves.
— Lewis Mumford
lifewinning: this is a dumb question but: when Lewis Mumford is talking about the "maggoty corpse" of the paleotechnic "debilitating" the potential of the neotechnic in Technics and Civilization...that's a Gramsci joke, right? Old world is dying, morbid symptoms etc?
davidcontrerasm: “We have become like Gods as technologists and like devils as moral beings, supermen in science and idiots in aesthetics”. (Lewis Mumford).
WesselReijers: Lewis Mumford's insights are both beautiful and much too relevant:
"Unfortunately, isolation and abstraction, while important to orderly research and refined symbolic representation, are likewise conditions under which real organisms die."
jim_rutt: This GPT-4 response is pretty farkin' amazing:
Prompt: What might Lewis Mumford have thought about Game B if he were around today?
Response: Lewis Mumford (1895-1990) was an American historian, philosopher, sociologist, and architectural critic. He wrote extensively about…
endosomajp: The phrase "The city is a place where one can find future dreams" is attributed to the American urban historian and critic Lewis Mumford.
MichaelNatelli: "New York is the perfect model of a city, not the model of a perfect city." - Lewis Mumford
ndo91647: Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.,Lewis Mumford,lighten,
SarahElizaBeez: “Moment to moment, it turns out, is not God’s conception, or nature’s. It is man conversing with himself about and through a piece of machinery he created."
― Lewis Mumford
wikipediachain: Monroe County, Florida > Fort Jefferson, Florida > Stock Island, Florida > Ghost town > Lewis Mumford > Market urbanism > Zoning > Chartered Institution of Civil Engineering Surveyors > Associated General Contractors of America > Structural engineer > Construction management
Isegoria: “This idea arrived from reading the critics of technology, such as Ted Kaczynski, Lewis Mumford, & Langdon Winner, who argued that our human-made artifacts create a deep web of interdependencies which give the technosphere its own agency, and I found their arguments convincing.”
FullerNate: I checked out the Lewis Mumford book that contains most of his most famous quotes from the library. Still had the original library checkout card with only one stamp from 1964.
Ke_wa_har_kees: What Lewis Mumford and Guenther Anders didn't see, is the absurd level at which humans would defend the Machine that enslaves them, even past the point of irrational aggressiveness. only for fear of the (inner)cave..?
Kelechii_CC: This weekend I'll create a playlist that features Harry Styles, Passenger, James Blunt, Lewis Capaldi, Bastille, Mumford & Sons, Labrint, Brymo, and Fun.
I'll arrange the chosen songs in such an order that the playlist will tell a story. Just like Kendrick does his albums.
mfirdxvs: Art Quote of the Day: "To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity." - Lewis Mumford
BMcGPhotography: Art Quote of the Day: "To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity." - Lewis Mumford
AlchemyLeads: "To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity."
— Lewis Mumford
Muhammad_Speed: Art Quote of the Day: "To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity." - Lewis Mumford
SoniaAristo: "To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity."
— Lewis Mumford
TheDigiBrandF: Art Quote of the Day: "To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity." - Lewis Mumford
JKTipsTricks: "To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity."
— Lewis Mumford
wyhaj97: "To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity."
— Lewis Mumford
SpotOn_DRTV: Art Quote of the Day: "To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity." - Lewis Mumford
robindavidman: Art Quote of the Day: "To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity." - Lewis Mumford
MistaCaLii: "To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity."
— Lewis Mumford
sno_dragon: Art Quote of the Day: "To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity." - Lewis Mumford
rdcaqke: Art Quote of the Day: "To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity." - Lewis Mumford
eMZeciorrrPL: Art Quote of the Day: "To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity." - Lewis Mumford
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johnolivermusic: "To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity." from Lewis Mumford -
betweentd: Art Quote of the Day:
"To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity." - Lewis Mumford
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iceandpop: "To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity."
praashok: To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.
Lewis Mumford
MarkAschParody: topics include The Fabelmans and Lewis Mumford’s description of baby-boom suburbia as a “child-centered environment”; Ordinary People’s Phantom of the Opera-inspired take on dynamic psychoanalysis; and the greatest sitcom of all time, Taxi
hardhatbeast: From Lewis Mumford's "The Myth Of The Machine". Transhumanism aims to play god....
CromerMervin: Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.,Lewis Mumford,greatness,
CNU_NYC: "Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends." – Lewis Mumford, New Yorker and New Yorker magazine architecture critic
rhunterh: "the skyscraper gave encouragement to all our characteristic American weaknesses: our love of abstract magnitude, our interest in land-gambling, our desire for conspicuous waste." - Lewis Mumford
LehrerJonah: The historian Lewis Mumford described the rise of the megalopolis as "the last stage in the classical cycle of civilization," which would end withrcomplete disruption and downfall"
Nasser_otaibi4: Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. - Lewis Mumford
anton_sorkin: Without "self-imposed restraints," Lewis Mumford warned, "the overproduction of books will bring about a state of intellectual enervation and depletion hardly to be distinguished from massive ignorance."
The information glut is here.
davidson_dylan: are there lewis mumford-style histories of technology about places other than europe??
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BastieVelo: Adding car lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity. - Lewis Mumford, 1955.
nswpolice: Can you help us locate Lewis?
Lewis Coric, aged 39, was last seen at a hospital on Barker St, Randwick, about 11.30am on Monday 27 February 2023.
CouncilorMendez: “Adding car lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity." – Lewis Mumford, 1955
The actual cure is prioritizing wheeling, walking, biking, and transit. Bend needs fewer cars, not space for more.
stanleyrogouski: Lewis Mumford predicted this back in the 1960s in his book about the "megamachine."
judystout1: "A certain amount of opposition is a great help to man. Kites rise against the wind, not with, the wind." Lewis Mumford
judystout1: Quote from Lewis Mumford's "The City in History".
judystout1: Lewis Mumford | News | The Harvard Crimson
judystout1: The Urban Prospect, by Lewis Mumford
Albari_cock: Lewis Mumford (2013) The burden of civilization in The Myth of the Machine. Technics and development (349-383)
About how war has been of paramount importance to civilisations, simply because a higher class can benefit from it (and how to resist the system).
rbrbr5: Lewis Mumford writes here about the precursors to the Industrial Revolution
leschqgytm: Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times BIDRVMC
_MsACT: "Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them."-Lewis Mumford
WabiSabiFutures: "Adding car lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity."
- Lewis Mumford
sridatta: "The machine is just as much a creature of thought as the poem: the poem is as much a fact of reality as the machine."
– Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization
HoboZen: For instance the way Kirkpatrick Sale popularized a kind of reappraisal of the Luddites.
Lewis Mumford is a good example who was called hysterical in his day but was inarguably correct on many things, like when he assessed the car-centered city as being a kind of anti-city.
golden_rosehon: 1st: Robbie Williams
Last: Lewis Capaldi, OTP
Fav: Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson
Least fav: maybe Mumford and Sons, I love them but they didn't interact once, no hello, no goodbye no encore, it was weird
mkuker: The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle, is actually the right to destroy the city. – Lewis Mumford
kuxigleb: Currently writing something about Urbit through the lens of Lewis Mumford's work. But this has led me to discover Jacques Ellul, who seems very based.
letreceharris: “Only when love takes the lead will the earth, and life on earth, be safe again. And not until then.”
—Lewis Mumford
ArchDaily: He began to stir his career towards urban planning while he was studying at Harvard, connecting with major exponent architects of the modernist movement, such as Josep Lluis Sert and Lewis Mumford.
KizunautFI: More people need to read Lewis Mumford.
soda_enjoyer: It’s my goal to read all of these books this year. My progress so far 2 weeks into Feb. is 0%. (not pictured: Culture of Cities - Lewis Mumford)
Godgift64107811: The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a directive for economic action toward human brotherhood.
-Lewis Mumford
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anotherJon: It's so heartening to see that the Welsh government understands the phenomenon of 'induced demand' or, as US urbanist Lewis Mumford put it (way back in 1955):
"Building more roads to reduce congestion is like a fat man loosening his belt to prevent obesity."
CornellHistory: Good news: Aaron Sachs has been named a 2023 National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalist in the Biography category for his book, Up From the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times (Princeton University Press).
hardhatbeast: Lewis Mumford interview on "Authoritarian and Democratic Technics" PT:1
xpressivculture: “When we were young, we could ask ourselves: what can we conquer? Now we can only ask: what can we save? That shrinkage of ambition is not due to age but to the times we live in.”
--Lewis Mumford to Van Wyck Brooks, July 24, 1936
BarryTh22153054: Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.
Lewis Mumford
Priyanka0009999: A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
Lewis Mumford
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libshipwreck: “Our numbness is our death.” - Lewis Mumford
ryanaboyd: Lewis Mumford and Sons
truthisrain: The affluence that once was monopolized by the king and his court is now being held up as the ultimate gift of the power system to mankind at large.
Lewis Mumford, The Pentagon of Power (The Myth of the Machine, Vol 2)
Gallagher_Bonds: "A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail." -Lewis Mumford
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ortizleadership: “A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.”
- Lewis Mumford
Comrade_LIVIN: American historian and liberal, Lewis Mumford, in his book on Rome: The City in History, referred to slaves, laborers, artisans and so forth as a "parasitic mob".
It doesn't end with Rome and still noted modern commoners as filth. Like most historians... They despise us.
karachinchilla1: “Eternity ceased gradually to serve as the measure and focus of human actions… in its place came the dictatorship of the clock.” - Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilizations
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A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail. - Lewis Mumford..
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A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind. - Lewis Mumford..
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Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends. - Lewis Mumford..
InfraBrutalism: "The one lasting contribution of the megamachine was the myth of the machine itself: the notion that this machine was, by its very nature, absolutely irresistible--and yet, provided one did not oppose it, ultimately beneficent." - Lewis Mumford
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To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity. - Lewis Mumford..
BeineckeLibrary: Naum Gabo to Lewis Mumford, January 26-28, 1965; more:
ImrichJI: Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends.
— Lewis Mumford, who died in January 1990
SusanKlaiber: Lewis Mumford died (1990)
AHCalendar: Lewis Mumford died (1990)
QueeredR: "Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion
is like loosening your belt to cure obesity."
~ Lewis Mumford, (1895-1990), American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology, & literary critic. Noted for his study of cities and urban architecture,
RayBoomhower: "Forget the damned motor car and build the cities for lovers and friends." Lewis Mumford, who died on this day in 1990
RayBoomhower: "Let us confess it: the human situation is always desperate." Lewis Mumford
nybooks: “I never forget the advice about writing that my early idol Lewis Mumford gave me at the outset of my career: ‘Have something to say and say it as briefly and clearly as possible.’” —an interview with Martin Filler
writeditype: Now life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation. -Lewis Mumford
guness1999: Lewis Mumford
Jacques Ellul
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