Global Magic - Technologies of Appropriation From Ancient Rome to Wall Street

Informationen zum Autor Alf Hornborg is an anthropologist and Professor of Human Ecology at Lund University, Sweden. Klappentext Modern thought on economics and technology is no less magical than the world views of non-modern peoples. This book reveals how our ideas about growth and progress ignore how money and machines throughout history have been used to exploit less affluent parts of world society. The argument critically explores a middle ground between Marxist political ecology and Actor-Network Theory. Zusammenfassung Modern thought on economics and technology is no less magical than the world views of non-modern peoples. This book reveals how our ideas about growth and progress ignore how money and machines throughout history have been used to exploit less affluent parts of world society. The argument critically explores a middle ground between Marxist political ecology and Actor-Network Theory.  Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 9. Conclusions: Money, Technology, and Magic

List of contents

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
9. Conclusions: Money, Technology, and Magic

Product details

• Authors: Alf Hornborg
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.03.2016
• EAN: 9781137567864
• ISBN: 978-1-137-56786-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability; Palgrave Studies in Anthropolo; Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; Umwelt, B, Kulturwissenschaften, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, Soziale Gruppen: religiöse Gemeinschaften, Culture, Sociology of Religion, Sociology, Globalization, Society, Sociology of Culture, Cultural Anthropology, Utopia, Ethnology, Ecology, Social Sciences, Religion & beliefs, The environment, Social & cultural anthropology, Environmental Sociology, Environmental Social Sciences, Sociology, general, Sociology & anthropology, Social Anthropology, Sociocultural Anthropology, Social groups: religious groups & communities, Religion and sociology