Global Magic / Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability (PDF)
Technologies of Appropriation from Ancient Rome to Wall Street
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book explores the conventional modern understanding of technology and the idea that technological progress is illusory, deriving from a local, European perspective on what has historically been a global process of accumulation and asymmetric resource...
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This book explores the conventional modern understanding of technology and the idea that technological progress is illusory, deriving from a local, European perspective on what has historically been a global process of accumulation and asymmetric resource transfers. Globalized technologies are based on differences in wages and the prices of natural resources in different parts of the world. Their magic consists of enabling affluent people to exert power over others while hiding the extent to which this power is dependent on the public conceptions about technology. The reconceptualization of globalized technology proposed here will benefit current deliberations on sustainability, as it advocates fundamental transformations of the economy, rather than technological utopianism.
Autoren-Porträt von Alf Hornborg
Alf Hornborg is an anthropologist and Professor of Human Ecology at Lund University, Sweden.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Alf Hornborg
- 2016, 1st ed. 2016, 201 Seiten, Englisch
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN-10: 1137567872
- ISBN-13: 9781137567871
- Erscheinungsdatum: 08.04.2016
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