Species and Machines: The Human Subjugation of Nature

ISBN-13: 9781138087972 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 174 str.

Martyn Hudson

Opis

This book rethinks the relationship between nature and human beings by describing their entanglements with machines. Reworking central ideas of critical theory to uncover the suppression of nature through technology, it is particularly concerned with the ways in which human social forms have actively subjugated and destroyed other species in order to enhance their own social power. Engaging with Marx and Marxist ecology, it examines the suppression and destruction of one particular species through technology, as well as the emergence of the ‘human encampments’ of the cities, the rise of mobile cultures, and the relationship between machines of memory and the ‘capturing’ of nature.

O autorze

Martyn Hudson is an associate researcher in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University, and author of The Slave Ship, Memory and the Origins of Modernity, and .Ghosts, Landscapes and Social Memory