Global Magic: Technologies Of Appropriation From Ancient Rome To Wall Street (palgrave Studies In Anthropology Of Sustainability)
by Alf Hornborg /
2016 / English / PDF
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Modern thought on economics and technology is no less magical than
the world views of non-modern peoples. This book reveals how our
ideas about growth and progress ignore how money and machines
throughout history have been used to exploit less affluent parts of
world society. The argument critically explores a middle ground
between Marxist political ecology and Actor-Network Theory.
Modern thought on economics and technology is no less magical than
the world views of non-modern peoples. This book reveals how our
ideas about growth and progress ignore how money and machines
throughout history have been used to exploit less affluent parts of
world society. The argument critically explores a middle ground
between Marxist political ecology and Actor-Network Theory.
