Alf Hornborg

The Power of the Machine

Global Inequalities of Economy, Technology, and Environment

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Globalization and the Environment
• Verlag: AltaMira Press, U.S.
• Seitenzahl: 284
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9780759100671
• ISBN-10: 0759100675
• Artikelnr.: 21307417

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction: The Machine as Emperor Part 3
Part 1: Technology and Unequal Exchange Chapter 4 Chapter 1: Technology and
Economics: The Interfusion of the Social and the Material Chapter 5 Chapter
2: Cornucopia or Zero-Sum Game: The Epistemology of Sustainability Chapter
6 Chapter 3: The Thermodynamics of Imperialism: Towards an Ecological
Theory of Unequal Exchange Chapter 7 Chapter 4: Ecosystems, World Systems,
and Environmental Justice Chapter 8 Chapter 5: Conceptualizing Accumulation
from Spondylus Shells to Fossil Fuels Chapter 9 Chapter 6: Use Value,
Energy, and the Image of Unlimited Good Chapter 10 Chapter 7: Language and
the Material: Probing our Categories Chapter 11 Chapter 8: Symbolic
Technologies: Machines and the Marxian Notion of Fetishism Part 12 Part 2:
Money, Modernity and Personhood Chapter 13 Chapter 9: Money, Reflexivity,
and the Semiotics of Modernity Chapter 14 Chapter 10: Ecology as Semiotics:
A Contextualist Manifesto Chapter 15 Chapter 11: Exchange, Personhood, and
Human Ecology Chapter 16 Chapter 12: The Abstraction of Discourse and
Identity: A Case Study Chapter 17 Afterword: Culture, Modernity, and Power:
The Relevance of Anthropology Chapter 18 References Chapter 19 Index