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  • LIQUIDATE: HOW MONEY IS DISSOLVING THE WORLD
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    LIQUIDATE: HOW MONEY IS DISSOLVING THE WORLD
    ALF HORNBORG
    Liquidate: How Money is Dissolving the World examines the emergence of money and its social and ecological repercussions. It views money as a new phenomenon in the evolution of life that has fundamentally transformed ecosystems and human social relations. The appearance of coined money around 600 BCE coincided with the first abstract philosophies and religions. This book shows ...

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  • THE MAGIC OF TECHNOLOGY
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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. It emphasises that technology is not the politically neutral revelation of natural principles that we tend to think, but largely a means of accumulat...

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  • ECOLOGY AND POWER
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    ECOLOGY AND POWER
    ALF HORNBORG
    Power and social inequality shape patterns of land use and resource management. This book explores this relationship from different perspectives, illuminating the complexity of interactions between human societies and nature. Most of the contributors use the perspective of "political ecology" as a point of departure, recognizing that human relations to the environment and human...

    $1,560.00

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  • GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND UNEQUAL EXCHANGE
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    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...

    $1,320.00

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