Mega machine

The concept of the mega machine was coined by Lewis Mumford in his work The Myth of the Machine and taken up by Erich Fromm and Rudolf Bahro , among others . Man is subject to authoritarian mono-technology, which identifies itself through centralized violence , power and bureaucracy and functionalises man. The aim is to take back the life of the mega- machine and to align technology in a way that is sustainable and compatible with nature and people.

Mumford originally understood the mega-machine to mean the integration of people into a comprehensive hierarchical organization who are subordinate to an externally set main purpose, for example to build pyramids as workers, to hold an empire together or to fight as soldiers in armies in the world wars.

literature

• Lewis Mumford : Myth of the Machine. Culture, technology and power , Europa-Verlag, Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-203-50491-X .
• Fabian Scheidler : The end of the mega machine. History of a Failing Civilization , Promedia Verlag, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-85371-384-6 .