Format:
1 Online-Ressource (X, 273 S.)
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graph. Darst., Kt
ISBN:
9780759116917
Series Statement:
Globalization and the environment
Content:
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 ha
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780759100671
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780759100664
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hornborg, Alf, 1954 - The power of the machine Walnut Creek, Calif. [u.a.] : AltaMira Press, 2001 ISBN 0759100667
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0759100675
Language:
English
Keywords:
Technologiepolitik
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Nachhaltigkeit
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Forschung und Entwicklung
