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“Unfortunately, once an economy is geared to expansion, the means rapidly turn into an end and "the going becomes the goal." Even more unfortunately, the industries that are favored by such expansion must, to maintain their output, be devoted to goods that are readily consumable either by their nature, or because they are so shoddily fabricated that they must soon be replaced. By fashion and built-in obsolescence the economies of machine production, instead of producing leisure and durable wealth, are duly cancelled out by the mandatory consumption on an even larger scale.”

Mean Ends Turns Goal Wealth Economy Fashion Industry Built Machines Productions Scales Goods Leisure Devoted Consumption Replaced Expansion Output Obsolescence

Book:THE CITY IN HISTORY

Source: THE CITY IN HISTORY

“There is not a tool, an implement, or a machine that has not resulted in a decrease in the contribution of human labor. Labor is not made permanently idle [though]; when replaced in one special category... it turns its attack against other obstacles on the main road to progress.”

Humans Made Turns Progress Special Labor Tools Machines Obstacles Contribution Categories Replaced Idle Decrease

Author:Frederic Bastiat

“The complicated engines manufactured by men demand, if one really wants to use them, much calm. Ever since our love for machines replaced the love we used to have for our fellow man, catastrophes proceed to increase.”

Ifs Men Want Use Used Demand Machines Increase Fellows Calm Complicated Engines Replaced Catastrophe Our Love Fellow Man

Author:Man Ray

“Video is originally a de-corporation, a disqualification of the sensorial organs which are replaced by machines. The eye and the hand are replaced by the data glove, the body is replaced by a data suit, sex is replaced by cybersex. All the qualities of the body are transferred to the machine.”

Body Hands Eye Sex Quality Machines Video Suits Data Corporations Organs Replaced Gloves Disqualification

Author:Paul Virilio

“How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing.”

Men Humans Made Nature Wonderful Machines Inferiors Replaced Wonderful Things

Book:The Road from Decadence: From Brothel to Cloister : Selected Letters of J.K. Huysmans

Source: The Road from Decadence: From Brothel to Cloister : Selected Letters of J.K. Huysmans

“The reality of our century is technology: the invention, construction and maintenance of machines. To be a user of machines is to be of the spirit of this century. Machines have replaced the transcendental spiritualism of past eras.”

Reality Past Spirit Technology Century Machines Invention Eras Construction Users Replaced Maintenance Transcendental Spiritualism

Book:Moholy-Nagy: the photograms : catalogue raisonné

Source: Moholy-Nagy: the photograms : catalogue raisonné