Power of the Machine

Global Inequalities of Economy, Technology, and Environment

AvAlf Hornborg

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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Hornborg argues that we are caught in a collective illusion about the nature of modern technology that prevents us from imagining solutions to our economic and environmental crises other than technocratic fixes. He demonstrates how the power of the machine generates increasingly asymmetrical exchanges and distribution of resources and risks between distant populations and ecosystems, and thus an increasingly polarized world order. The author challenges us to reconceptualize the machine—'industrial technomass'—as a species of power and a problem of culture. He shows how economic anthropology has the tools to deconstruct the concepts of production, money capital, and market exchange, and to analyze capital accumulation as a problem at the very interface of the natural and social sciences. His analysis provides an alternative understanding of economic growth and technological development. Hornborg's work is essential for researchers in anthropology, human ecology, economics, political economy, world-systems theory, environmental justice, and science and technology studies. Find out more about the author at the Lund University, Sweden web site.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-10-09
Mått:148 x 226 x 17 mm
Vikt:445 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Globalization and the Environment
Antal sidor:284
Förlag:AltaMira Press
ISBN:9780759100671

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Naturvetenskap:allmänt inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Alf Hornborg is professor and chair of the Human Ecology Division at Lund University, Sweden

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There is more to culture than meets the eye, that product of cultural processing designed to overlook that 'more'; that 'more' being the allegedly natural and objective foundations of our life in common with all its iniquities and inanities. This is the message of Hornborg's astonishing book, bound to spur the social-scientific community to take another hard look on their own seemingly self-evident concepts and hidden from view assumptions. The book crowns years of study and thought which went deeper than even the most earnest and acute self-scrutiny of anthropologists and economists went thus far. Very seldom is describing the publication of a book as revolutionary event as apt. Hornborg's oeuvre stands a chance to revolutionise not only the paradigm of the theory of modern society, but the way we divide human actions from their precultural conditions and so called 'unanticipated consequences.'

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 Introduction: The Machine as EmperorPart 3 Part 1: Technology and Unequal ExchangeChapter 4 Chapter 1: Technology and Economics: The Interfusion of the Social and the MaterialChapter 5 Chapter 2: Cornucopia or Zero-Sum Game: The Epistemology of SustainabilityChapter 6 Chapter 3: The Thermodynamics of Imperialism: Towards an Ecological Theory of Unequal ExchangeChapter 7 Chapter 4: Ecosystems, World Systems, and Environmental JusticeChapter 8 Chapter 5: Conceptualizing Accumulation from Spondylus Shells to Fossil FuelsChapter 9 Chapter 6: Use Value, Energy, and the Image of Unlimited GoodChapter 10 Chapter 7: Language and the Material: Probing our CategoriesChapter 11 Chapter 8: Symbolic Technologies: Machines and the Marxian Notion of FetishismPart 12 Part 2: Money, Modernity and PersonhoodChapter 13 Chapter 9: Money, Reflexivity, and the Semiotics of ModernityChapter 14 Chapter 10: Ecology as Semiotics: A Contextualist ManifestoChapter 15 Chapter 11: Exchange, Personhood, and Human EcologyChapter 16 Chapter 12: The Abstraction of Discourse and Identity: A Case StudyChapter 17 Afterword: Culture, Modernity, and Power: The Relevance of AnthropologyChapter 18 ReferencesChapter 19 Index

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