Magic of Technology

Magic of Technology

The Machine as a Transformation of Slavery

Hornborg, Alf

Taylor & Francis Ltd

05/2024

274

Mole

9781032223032

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Introduction: The Secret Rationale of the Industrial Revolution Part I: The Social Constitution of Machines 1 Productive Forces as Social Relations: Technology as an Object for Social Theory 2 The Shadow of Progress: Acknowledging Ecologically Unequal Exchange 3 References to Technology in Critical Development Theory 4 Stealing Time and Space: The Elusive Magic of Technology Part II: Ideas About Machines, Energy and Value 5 Energy and Labour-power: When All People and All Things Became Instruments 6 Money and Market Valuation as the Root of our Afflictions 7 Beyond Objective Values: Human Ideas in a Material World 8 Solar Power for Whom? The Fantasies of Leftist Ecomodernism Part III. Machines, Culture, and History 9 Mistaking Machines for Humans: Delusions of the Material Turn 10 The Power of Signs: The Invisibility of Social Metabolism before the Machine 11 Progress or Parasitism? Money and Technology in the World History of Inequality 12 Dismantling the Machine: Problems in Naming the Evil; Afterword: Beyond the machine
Vice Versa;Critical Development Theory;Marxian Prometheanism;Energy Sources;General Purpose Money;Embodied Labour Time;Mainstream Environmental Economics;Machine Fetishism;Asymmetric Transfers;Global Resource Flows;Late Eighteenth Century Britain;EUE;Biophysical Resources;Energy Systems;Bronze Metallurgy;Asymmetric Flows;Technological Fetishism;Marxist Labour Theory;Social Metabolism;Heterodox Economists;Biophysical Phenomena;MRIO Analysis;Embodied Labour;High Order Energy;Gunder Frank