LIBROS DEL AUTOR: alf hornborg

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  • The Magic of Technology
    Alf Hornborg
    This book examines our understanding of technology and suggests that machines are counterfeit organisms that seem to replace human bodies but are ultimately means of displacing workloads and environmental loads beyond our horizon. ...
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    77,13 €

  • Nature, Society, and Justice in the Anthropocene
    Alf Hornborg
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    53,93 €

  • Global Magic
    Alf Hornborg
    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 Th...
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    85,11 €

  • Global Ecology and Unequal Exchange
    Alf Hornborg
    In modern society, we tend to have faith in technology. But is our concept of ’technology’ itself a cultural illusion? This book challenges the idea that humanity as a whole is united in a common development toward increasingly efficient technologies. Instead it argues that modern technology implies a kind of global ’zero-sum game’ involving uneven resource flows, which make it...
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    88,46 €

  • Rethinking Environmental History
    Alf Hornborg
    This exciting new reader in environmental history provides a framework for understanding the relations between ecosystems and world-systems over time. Alf Hornborg, J. R. McNeill, and Joan Martinez-Alier have brought together a group of the foremost writers from the social, historical, and geographical sciences to provide an overview of the ecological dimension of global, econo...
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    78,28 €

  • Power of the Machine
    Alf Hornborg
    Hornborg argues that we are caught in a collective illusion about the nature of modern technology that prevents us from imagining solutions to our economic and environmental crises other than technocratic fixes. He demonstrates how the power of the machine generates increasingly asymmetrical exchanges and distribution of resources and risks between distant populations and ecosy...
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    61,14 €