"Hornborg 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. He demonstrates how the power of the machine generates increasingly asymmetrical exchanges and distribution of resources and risks between distant populations and ecosystems, and thus an increasingly polarized world order. The author challenges us to reconceptualize the machine--industrial technomass"--as a species of power and a problem of culture. He shows how economic anthropology has the tools to deconstruct the concepts of production, money capital, and market exchange, and to analyze capital accumulation as a problem at the very interface of the natural and social sciences. His analysis provides an alternative understanding of economic growth and technological development. Hornborg's work is essential for researchers in anthropology, human ecology, economics, political economy, world-systems theory, environmental justice, and science and technology studies.
發表於2024-11-25
The Power of the Machine: Global Inequalities of Economy, Technology, and Environment 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
The case study starts with the story of how the indigenous group protested against the cooperative intention to set up a quarry upon the local spiritual mountain. One thing pinpointed there, is the native voice, in striving to be heard by the mainstream,...
評分書在最後的總結,也是我一直以來對後現代的不解之處。Hornborg說,我們後現代人類學傢熱熱鬧鬧地解構這個解構那個,“the intellectual debate can live a life of its own”。但人傢華爾街、貨幣組織、世界銀行還是該乾嘛乾嘛。這個世界仍然是某幾百個富人掌握的財富等於另幾...
評分書在最後的總結,也是我一直以來對後現代的不解之處。Hornborg說,我們後現代人類學傢熱熱鬧鬧地解構這個解構那個,“the intellectual debate can live a life of its own”。但人傢華爾街、貨幣組織、世界銀行還是該乾嘛乾嘛。這個世界仍然是某幾百個富人掌握的財富等於另幾...
評分The case study starts with the story of how the indigenous group protested against the cooperative intention to set up a quarry upon the local spiritual mountain. One thing pinpointed there, is the native voice, in striving to be heard by the mainstream,...
評分The case study starts with the story of how the indigenous group protested against the cooperative intention to set up a quarry upon the local spiritual mountain. One thing pinpointed there, is the native voice, in striving to be heard by the mainstream,...
圖書標籤: 環境 政治經濟學 政治經濟 人類學 個人與社會
The Power of the Machine: Global Inequalities of Economy, Technology, and Environment 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載