Mass Production – Page 2

Hollywood… was the place

Hollywood… was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production. Angela Carter

The Second Wave Society is industrial and based on mass production, mass distribution, mass consumption, mass education, mass media, mass recreation, mass entertainment, and weapons of mass destruction. You combine those things with standardization, centralization, concentration, and synchronization, and you wind up with a style of organization we call bureaucracy. Alvin Toffler

The tubular steel chair

The tubular steel chair is surely rational from technical and constructive points of view. It is light, suitable for mass production, and so on. But steel and chromium surfaces are not satisfactory from the human point of view. Alvar Aalto

Mass production is nothing

Mass production is nothing new. Weren’t cathedrals built through mass production? The pyramids?… Paintings can be painted with the left hand, the right hand, someone else’s hand, or many people’s hands. The scale of production is irrelevant to its content. Ai Weiwei

We seem to want

We seem to want mass production, but we must remember that men are individuals not to be satisfactorily dealt with in masses, and the making of men is more important than the production of things. Ralph Washington Sockman

The movie, like the

The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone ‘Stuck in Love’, with scrupulous respect for John Green’s best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep – not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds.
A. O. Scott

In the 18th century,

In the 18th century, James Hargreaves invented the Spinning Jenny, and Richard Arkwright pioneered the water-propelled spinning frame which led to the mass production of cotton. This was truly revolutionary. The cotton manufacturers created a whole new class of people – the urban proletariat. The structure of society itself would never be the same.
A. N. Wilson