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| List of figures and maps | ||
| Preface | ||
| Introduction: The Machine As Emperor | 1 | |
| Pt. 1 | Technology and Unequal Exchange | |
| 1 | Technology and Economics: The Interfusion of the Social and the Material | 9 |
| 2 | Cornucopia or Zero-Sum Game: The Epistemology of Sustainability | 23 |
| 3 | The Thermodynamics of Imperialism: Toward an Ecological Theory of Unequal Exchange | 35 |
| 4 | Ecosystems, World Systems, and Environmental Justice | 49 |
| 5 | Conceptualizing Accumulation from Spondylus Shell to Fossil Fuels | 65 |
| 6 | Use Value, Energy, and the Image of Unlimited Good | 89 |
| 7 | Language and the Material: Probing Our Categories | 111 |
| 8 | Symbolic Technologies: Machines and the Marxian Notion of Fetishism | 131 |
| Pt. 2 | Money, Modernity, and Personhood | |
| 9 | Money, Reflexivity, and the Semiotics of Modernity | 157 |
| 10 | Ecology As Semiotics: A Contextualist Manifesto | 175 |
| 11 | Exchange, Personhood, and Human Ecology | 191 |
| 12 | The Abstraction of Discourse and Identity: A Case Study | 211 |
| Afterword: Culture, Modernity, and Power - The Relevance of Anthropology | 237 | |
| References | 245 | |
| Index | 261 | |
| About the Author | 273 |
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Veena Roesler
reviewed Power of the Machine: Global Inequalities of Economy, Technology, and Environment on June 20, 2008
Power of the Machine: Global Inequalities of Economy, Technology, and Environment
I'd give this book a 5 but it is a tough read. Deeply philosophical, politico-ecological, post-marxist, exergy-based critique of capitalism and its effect on the environment. Got that? Mixes political ecological theory, entropic theory (essergy/exergy/emergy type stuff), ecological theory and global development stuff. Fascinating, brialliant and hard work. The bottom line? Material, exhange (supply-demand) and labor theories of value support capitalism's rape of the earth and the natural support systems that make out lives good. The only way to escape this cycle is to value the amount of energy put into a product, and/or the amount of useable energy still available in the product. Yee-haw!
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