The power of the machine : global inequalities of economy, technology, and environment /
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| Materialtyp: | Bok |
| Språk: | English |
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Walnut Creek, Calif. :
AltaMira Press,
c2001.
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| Serie: | [Globalization and the environment ;
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Innehållsförteckning:
- 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.