Global Magic : Technologies of Appropriation from Ancient Rome to Wall Street / / by Alf Hornborg

• Autore: Hornborg Alf
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2016.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (VII, 201 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.3
• Soggetto topico: Sociology; Religion and sociology; Culture; Ethnology; Environmental sciences - Social aspects; Sociology of Religion; Sociology of Culture; Sociocultural Anthropology; Environmental Social Sciences
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Global magic
• ISBN: 9781137567871; 1137567872
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910253307403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability, . 2945-6665