Nature, Society, and Justice in the Anthropocene: Unraveling the Money-Energy-Technology Complex

ISBN-13: 9781108454193 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 304 str.

Alf Hornborg

Opis

Money and market prices obscure an unequal global exchange of resources, which is a prerequisite to what we perceive as technological progress.

Recenzje

'Among advocates of Degrowth, Hornborg stands out in proposing the radical, practical alternative of reforming the money system to enable the reconstruction of the relationship between people and planet.' Mary Mellor, Professor Emerita, Northumbria University and author of Debt or Democracy

Spis treści

1. Rethinking economy and technology; 2. The Anthropocene challenge to our worldview; 3. Producing and obscuring global injustices; 4. The money game; 5. Anticipating degrowth; 6. The ontology of technology; 7. Energy technologies as time-space appropriation; 8. Capitalism, energy and the logic of money; 9. Unequal exchange and economic value; 10. Subjects versus objects: artifacts have consequences, not agency; 11. Anthropocene confusions: dithering while the planet burns; 12. Animism, relationism and the ontological turn; 13. Conclusions and possibilities; Afterword: confronting mainstream notions of progress.