Modern thought on economics and technology is no less magical than the world views of non-modern peoples. This book reveals how our ideas about growth and progress ignore how money and machines throughout history have been used to exploit less affluent parts of world society.
Alf Hornborg is an anthropologist and Professor of Human Ecology at Lund University, Sweden.
Innehållsförteckning
1. The Ecology of Things: Artifacts as Embodied Relations 2. Land, Energy, and Value in the Technocene 3. The Magic of Money 4. Empires, World-Systems, and Expanding Markets 5. Money as Fictive Energy: Unraveling the Relation between Economics and Physics 6. Agency, Ontology, and Global Magic 7. The Political Ecology of Technological Utopianism 8. Redesigning Money to Curb Globalization and Increase Resilience 9. Conclusions: Money, Technology, and Magic
Stellan Tengroth, Fredrik Lindström, Birger Schlaug, Anders Wijkman, Stefan Edman, Pär Holmgen, Christer Sanne, Stina Oscarson, Alf Hornborg, Katarina Bjärvall, Lars Wilderäng, Bengt Brülde
Jens Bartelson, Henrik Berggren, Staffan Carlshamre, Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Kristina Fjelkestam, Torbjörn Gustafsson Chorell, Stefan Helgesson, Alf Hornborg, Peter Jackson, Helge Jordheim, Dan Karlholm, Claudia Lindén, Hanna Meretoja, Jerry Määttä, Anders Olsson, Johan Redin, Hans Ruin, Fredrika Spindler, Jayne Svenungsson
Susan Paulson, Lisa L. Gezon, Arturo Escobar, Andrew Gardner, Mette Brodgen, James Greenberg, Hanne Svarstad, Michael Dove, Alf Hornborg, Charles Stevens, Josiah Heyman, Fiona Mackenzie, Anne Ferguson, William Derman, Susan Paulson, Lisa L. Gezon