Alf Hornborg

The Magic of Technology

The Machine as a Transformation of Slavery

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines our understanding of technology and suggests that machines are counterfeit organisms that seem to replace human bodies but are ultimately means of displacing workloads and environmental loads beyond our horizon.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9781032210841
• ISBN-10: 1032210842
• Artikelnr.: 64104858

Autorenporträt

Alf Hornborg is an anthropologist and Professor of Human Ecology at Lund University, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Secret Rationale of the Industrial Revolution Part I: The
Social Constitution of Machines 1 Productive Forces as Social Relations:
Technology as an Object for Social Theory 2 The Shadow of Progress:
Acknowledging Ecologically Unequal Exchange 3 References to Technology in
Critical Development Theory 4 Stealing Time and Space: The Elusive Magic of
Technology Part II: Ideas About Machines, Energy and Value 5 Energy and
Labour-power: When All People and All Things Became Instruments 6 Money and
Market Valuation as the Root of our Afflictions 7 Beyond Objective Values:
Human Ideas in a Material World 8 Solar Power for Whom? The Fantasies of
Leftist Ecomodernism Part III. Machines, Culture, and History 9 Mistaking
Machines for Humans: Delusions of the Material Turn 10 The Power of Signs:
The Invisibility of Social Metabolism before the Machine 11 Progress or
Parasitism? Money and Technology in the World History of Inequality 12
Dismantling the Machine: Problems in Naming the Evil; Afterword: Beyond the
machine