✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

The Toaster Paradox. For the past few months, I have been… | by Will Holman | Medium

medium.com · 872 words · saved by 1 readers

For the past few months, I have been engaged in the (stupidly) ambitious project of reading Sigfried Giedion’s 1948 tome Mechanization…

Press enter or click to view image in full size The Toaster Paradox Will Holman 4 min read · Dec 31, 2014 -- Listen Share For the past few months, I have been engaged in the (stupidly) ambitious project of reading Sigfried Giedion’s 1948 tome Mechanization Takes Command: A Contribution to Anonymous History . Much like my last self-assigned homework reading, The Prodigious Builders , the author’s non-native English and the age of the book makes for some unconventional prose. Gideon traces the history of manufacturing from the earliest rumblings of the Industrial Revolution on through World War

Explore this link on the map →

saved by

related reading