The Magic of Technology : The Machine as a Transformation of Slavery (Paperback)

Introduction: The Secret Rationale of the Industrial Revolution Part I: The Social Constitution of Machines 1 Productive Forces as Social Relations: Technology as an Object for Social Theory 2 The Shadow of Progress: Acknowledging Ecologically Unequal Exchange 3 References to Technology in Critical Development Theory 4 Stealing Time and Space: The Elusive Magic of Technology Part II: Ideas About Machines, Energy and Value 5 Energy and Labour-power: When All People and All Things Became Instruments 6 Money and Market Valuation as the Root of our Afflictions 7 Beyond Objective Values: Human Ideas in a Material World 8 Solar Power for Whom? The Fantasies of Leftist Ecomodernism Part III. Machines, Culture, and History 9 Mistaking Machines for Humans: Delusions of the Material Turn 10 The Power of Signs: The Invisibility of Social Metabolism before the Machine 11 Progress or Parasitism? Money and Technology in the World History of Inequality 12 Dismantling the Machine: Problems in Naming the Evil; Afterword: Beyond the machine