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" Nature builds no machines, no locomotives, railways, electric telegraphs, self-acting mules, etc. These are the products of human industry; natural material transformed into organs of the human will over nature, or of the human participation in nature.... "
The Knowledge-based Economy: Modeled, Measured, Simulated - Page 21
by Loet Leydesdorff - 2006 - 385 pages
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Man and the Biosphere

344 pages
...the historical concrete relations of production."191 "Nature," writes Marx, "builds no machine, no locomotives, railways, electric telegraphs, self-acting...These are the products of human industry; natural material transformed into organs of the human will over nature, or of human participation in nature."192...
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Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought: Critical Assessments

Bob Jessop, Charlie Malcolm-Brown - Marx, Karl, 1818-1883 - 1999 - 776 pages
...technological level, it is because the productivity of labor has risen due to the advance of human knowledge: Nature does not build machines, locomotives, railways, electric telegraphs, self-acting mules, etc. . . . They are organs of the human brain created by human hands; they are reified power of knowledge....
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New Media: A Critical Introduction

Martin Lister - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 424 pages
...concerned to distance the technological world from the natural realm: Nature builds no machines, no locomotives, railways, electric telegraphs, self-acting...These are the products of human industry; natural material transformed into organs of the human will over nature . . . They are organs of the human brain,...
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Making Mice: Standardizing Animals for American Biomedical Research, 1900-1955

Karen Rader - Science - 2004 - 326 pages
...Science and Public Life (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995). 34 "Nature builds no machines, no locomotives, railways, electric telegraphs, self-acting...These are the products of human industry; natural material transformed into organs of the human will over nature, or of the human participation in nature....
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Understanding the Dynamics of a Knowledge Economy

Wilfred Dolfsma, Luc Soete - Computers - 2006 - 275 pages
...discussed the technological condition of industrial capitalism. For example, he formulated as follows: Nature does not build machines, locomotives, railways,...one's practices in nature . . . The development of the fixed assets shows to what extent knowledge available at the level of society is transformed into...
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