...meastirgme'hts and adjustment and the reductidn of all manner of things, phrposes arid acts, necessitiesj conveniences, and amenities of life, to standard units....is the further bearing of th'e machine process upon th* growth of culture — the disciplinary feffect which this movement fdr standardization arid mechanical...

..."is to be seen in the enforcement of precise mechanical measurements and adjustments and the relation of all manner of things, purposes and acts, necessities,...conveniences and amenities of life, to standard units." As we have already noted, the machine process tends toward the standardization of the mind and the...

...sense. Its dominance is seen in the enforcement of precise mechanical measurements and adjustments and the reduction of all manner of things, purposes...conveniences, and amenities of life, to standard units." 54 In Veblen's eyes the most important single fact about this state of affairs was that it brought...

...1904 Within the comprehensive situation of to-day there is this new factor, the machine process. . . . The machine process pervades the modern life and dominates...and amenities of life, to standard units. . . . The point of immediate interest here is the further bearing of the machine process upon the growth of culture,—the...

...Vor Oldtid, "Stenalderen," and Aarbdger for nordisk Oldkyndighed, 1906. The Discipline of the Machine The machine process pervades the modern life and dominates...and amenities of life, to standard units. . . . The point of immediate interest here is the further bearing of the machine process upon the growth of culture...

...sense. Its dominance is seen in the enforcement of precise mechanical measurements and adjustments and the reduction of all manner of things, purposes...conveniences, and amenities of life to standard units." Although it is unlikely that Kafka ever read the work from which these lines are taken — Thorstein...

...same way and in approximately the same degree. If the outcome is dynastic politics and 345 armament again played to a finish in popular squalor, aristocratic...foregoing chapters. The point of immediate interest aere is the further bearing of the machine process upon the growth of culture, — the disciplinary...

...sense. It[s] dominance is seen in the enforcement of precise mechanical measurements and adjustments and the reduction of all manner of things, purposes...conveniences, and amenities of life, to standard units. (Veblen 1904: 306) Furthermore, according to Veblen (1904: 67), the machine process "inculcates a habit...