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1 Online-Ressource (X, 273 S.)
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ISBN:
9780759116917
Serie:
Globalization and the environment
Inhalt:
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
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Description based upon print version of record
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ISBN 9780759100671
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ISBN 9780759100664
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Hornborg, Alf, 1954 - The power of the machine Walnut Creek, Calif. [u.a.] : AltaMira Press, 2001 ISBN 0759100667
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0759100675
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Technologiepolitik
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Nachhaltigkeit
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Forschung und Entwicklung
