Mechanization Takes Command : A contribution to anonymous history, Paperback ...

Description: Mechanization Takes Command : A contribution to anonymous history, Paperback by Giedion, Sigfried; Von Moos, Stanislaus (AFT), ISBN 081669043X, ISBN-13 9780816690435, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK This is a republication of an influential book first published in 1948. It is a follow-up to the author's 1941 book Space, Time, and Architecture a philosophical book that looked at the modern divide between thought and feeling. In this text, the author explores what he believes to be the root cause: how mechanization affects human beings. It is an early and important attempt at a social history of everyday life, written with the certainty that understanding the history of mechanization is vital, and that the more a group is focused on ideas of progress, futurism, and further mechanization, the more likely they are to discard objects or records that would allow anyone to accurately reconstruct the past, and so these must be gathered and preserved if we wish to understand how society has and has not changed. Th begins with a section on anonymous history (what we would now call social history). It moves on to a section on the history of ideas and attitudes toward mechanization in Europe from the classical and medieval eras through 1939, and then case studies and history of mechanization in craft and industry (traditional European men's work), agriculture, domestic spaces (interior design), household work (kitchen and laundry, with a section on attitudes about women's roles), and the bathroom. The conclusion looks at the illusion of progress. Th will be valuable to readers for its original purpose, as a history of the objects of everyday Western life with philosophical implications newly relevant to the reshaping of everyday communication through mechanization. It will also be useful to readers interested in the history of architecture, philosophy, and technology. Th is fully illustrated with black and white diagrams, historical advertisements, and photographs. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()

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