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Global magic : technologies of appropriation from ancient Rome to Wall Street / Alf Hornborg.

Hornborg, Alf, author.
2016
GN448 .H66 2016
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Title
Global magic : technologies of appropriation from ancient Rome to Wall Street / Alf Hornborg.
Author
Hornborg, Alf, author.
ISBN
9781137567871 (electronic book)
1137567872 (electronic book)
9781137567864
Published
Youngmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
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GN448 .H66 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.3
Summary
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.
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The Ecology of Things: Artifacts as Embodied Relations; 2 Land, Energy, and Value in the Technocene; 3 The Magic of Money; 4 Empires, World-Systems, and Expanding Markets; 5 Money as Fictive Energy: Unraveling the Relation between Economics and Physics; 6 Agency, Ontology, and Global Magic; 7 The Political Ecology of Technological Utopianism; 8 Redesigning Money to Curb Globalization and Increase Resilience; Conclusions: Money, Technology, and Magic; Notes; References; Index

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