Global Magic Technologies of Appropriation from Ancient Rome to Wall
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
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Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability Our series aims to bring together research on the social, behavioral, and cultural dimensions of sustainability: on local and global understandings of the concept and on lived practices around the world. It will publish studies focusing on ways of living, acting and thinking which claim to favor the local and global ecological systems of which we are part, and on which we depend for survival. Political pressure surrounding sustainable resource governance shapes regimes of measurement and control and the devolution of risk and responsibility. Scientific cultures of sustainability are generated out of concern over the need for “green” technologies and materials. Popular discourses of scarcity of resources or capital increasingly lead to challenges to cosmopolitan and egalitarian ideals (human rights, the welfare state), fed by fears over the sustainability of social systems and civilizations in the face of global change. Meanwhile an array of social and cultural transformations is occurring that seek to offer ways to live (and produce, consume . . .) more sustainably. Calculations of sustainability raise questions of value—a vexed political affair. An anthropological approach will help understand these emerging phenomena. Series Editors: Marc Brightman and Jerome Lewis Titles: Global Magic: Technologies of Appropriation from Ancient Rome to Wall Street by Alf Hornborg
Global Magic Technologies of Appropriation from Ancient Rome to Wall Street
Alf Hornborg
GLOBAL MAGIC
Copyright © Alf Hornborg 2016 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2016 978-1-137-56786-4 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission. In accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First published 2016 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of Nature America, Inc., One New York Plaza, Suite 4500, New York, NY 10004-1562. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. ISBN: 978–1–349–93248–1 E-PDF ISBN: 978–1–137–56787–1 DOI: 10.1057/9781137567871 Distribution in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world is by Palgrave Macmillan®, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, re
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