Power of the Machine Global Inequalities of Economy, Technology and Environment

Name: Power of the Machine Global Inequalities of Economy, Technology and Environment
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ISBN: 9780759100671

ISBN-10: 0759100675

ISBN-13: 9780759100671

Edition: 2001

Authors: Alf Hornborg

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Book details

Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Publication date: 10/9/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Alf Hornborg is Professor in the Human Ecology Division at Lund University, Sweden.



List of figures and maps


Preface


Introduction: The Machine As Emperor



Technology and Unequal Exchange



Technology and Economics: The Interfusion of the Social and the Material



Cornucopia or Zero-Sum Game: The Epistemology of Sustainability



The Thermodynamics of Imperialism: Toward an Ecological Theory of Unequal Exchange



Ecosystems, World Systems, and Environmental Justice



Conceptualizing Accumulation from Spondylus Shells to Fossil Fuels



Use Value, Energy, and the Image of Unlimited Good



Language and the Material: Probing Our Categories



Symbolic Technologies: Machines and the Marxian Notion of Fetishism



Money, Modernity, and Personhood



Money, Reflexivity, and the Semiotics of Modernity



Ecology As Semiotics: A Contextualist Manifesto



Exchange, Personhood, and Human Ecology



The Abstraction of Discourse and Identity: A Case Study


Afterword: Culture, Modernity, and Power--The Relevance of Anthropology


References


Index


About the Author