The power of the machine : global inequalities of economy, technology, and environment /

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Автор: Hornborg, Alf
Формат: Книга
Мова:English
Опубліковано: Walnut Creek, Calif. : AltaMira Press, c2001.
Серія:[Globalization and the environment ; 1]
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Зміст:
  • Introduction: The Machine As Emperor
  • Pt. 1. Technology and Unequal Exchange
  • 1. Technology and Economics: The Interfusion of the Social and the Material
  • 2. Cornucopia or Zero-Sum Game: The Epistemology of Sustainability
  • 3. The Thermodynamics of Imperialism: Toward an Ecological Theory of Unequal Exchange
  • 4. Ecosystems, World Systems, and Environmental Justice
  • 5. Conceptualizing Accumulation from Spondylus Shell to Fossil Fuels
  • 6. Use Value, Energy, and the Image of Unlimited Good
  • 7. Language and the Material: Probing Our Categories
  • 8. Symbolic Technologies: Machines and the Marxian Notion of Fetishism
  • Pt. 2. Money, Modernity, and Personhood
  • 9. Money, Reflexivity, and the Semiotics of Modernity
  • 10. Ecology As Semiotics: A Contextualist Manifesto
  • 11. Exchange, Personhood, and Human Ecology
  • 12. The Abstraction of Discourse and Identity: A Case Study
  • Afterword: Culture, Modernity, and Power - The Relevance of Anthropology.