Max Castle

For instance, the abolition of slavery in America. Instead of the typical narrative of a human struggle for freedom, look at industrialization allows machine labor to replace slave labor.

Pyramids. Instead of being superstitious towers to heaven, they are some of the earliest projects requiring massive organization, mathematics, division of labor, resource planning. (and in a perverse accelerationist sense of history, they actually are towers to 'Heaven').

Lewis Mumford officially inaugurated into the Acc canon

I'm not familiar with him?

He had several interesting theories that revolved around this particular theme. One concerns the 'megamachine', which is *precisely* what you hone in on here, and he situated it as beginning in the Pyramid Age

He also divided techno-history from the Middle Ages onwards into three stages: the eotechnic, the paleotechnic, and the neotechnic. The eotechnic was dispersed, small-scale production; the paleotechnic was megatechnical industrial civilization, and the..

neotechnic (electrical revolution) was a chance to return to the conditions of the eotechnic, but civilization has become locked-in to the paleotechnic model, which gets affixed into the later megamachine theory (as a form that arises repeatedly through civilization's history)

Where should I start with Mumford?