03159nam 22007455 450 991025330740332120230810143929.09781137567871113756787210.1057/9781137567871(CKB)3710000000636105(SSID)ssj0001647237(PQKBManifestationID)16415386(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001647237(PQKBWorkID)14857416(PQKB)11117910(DE-He213)978-1-137-56787-1(MiAaPQ)EBC4716750(Perlego)3505589(EXLCZ)99371000000063610520160329d2016 u| 0engurnn|008mamaatxtccrGlobal Magic Technologies of Appropriation from Ancient Rome to Wall Street /by Alf Hornborg1st ed. 2016.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (VII, 201 p.) Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability,2945-6665Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9781349932481 1349932485 9781137567864 1137567864 Includes bibliographical references and index.This book explores the conventional modern understanding of technology and the idea that technological progress is illusory, deriving from a local, European perspective on what has historically been a global process of accumulation and asymmetric resource transfers. Globalized technologies are based on differences in wages and the prices of natural resources in different parts of the world. Their magic consists of enabling affluent people to exert power over others while hiding the extent to which this power is dependent on the public conceptions about technology. The reconceptualization of globalized technology proposed here will benefit current deliberations on sustainability, as it advocates fundamental transformations of the economy, rather than technological utopianism.Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability,2945-6665SociologyReligion and sociologyCultureEthnologyEnvironmental sciencesSocial aspectsSociologySociology of ReligionSociology of CultureSociocultural AnthropologyEnvironmental Social SciencesSociology.Religion and sociology.Culture.Ethnology.Environmental sciencesSocial aspects.Sociology.Sociology of Religion.Sociology of Culture.Sociocultural Anthropology.Environmental Social Sciences.306.3Hornborg Alfauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut791509BOOK9910253307403321Global magic1769279UNINA