Machine fetishism and the consumer's burden
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 2265154 |
|---|---|
| Autores | A Hornborg (0000-0003-2102-5875, New York State University College of Human Ecology, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2008 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Fascículo | 5 |
| Páginas | 4-5 |
| Data de publicação | 2008-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | Anthropology Today (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0268-540X • E-ISSN: 1467-8322 |
| Editora | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-8322.2008.00610.x |
| OpenAlex | W1969838726 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 3 |
| Referências citadas | 5 |
The prospect of peaking oil extraction prompts us to rethink processes of development and decline in the world system. Rather than simply revive Malthusian concerns over the dismal destiny of humankind as a whole, we need to approach the notion of "cheap energy" as an experience situated in societal space as well as in historical time. Energy has been perceived as "cheap" only within core segments of world society, whose ideology of progress and development has tended to construe contemporary global inequalities as representing different stages in time. Draught-animals and wood fuel are here often perceived as elements of the past, yet remain an everyday reality for significant parts of the world's population. Conversely, fossil-fuel technology is conceived as a "now" rather than a "here." For many post-Soviet farmers, the age of the machine is already a thing of the past. The machine is an index of purchasing power and a specific form of capital accumulation that is as myst ified and fetishized as any other power strategy in history. As we begin to anticipate its demise, we might reflect on the fact that the war in Iraq and global climate change are opposite sides of the same coin. The structural problem of fossil-fuelled capitalism is to maintain imports of energy and exports of entropy, two imperatives of "development" that are both increasingly difficult to sustain
Capitalism · Demise · Economics · Economy · Fetishism · Ideology · Neoclassical economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Energy, Environment, and Transportation Policies · Global Energy and Sustainability Research · History · Law · Market Dynamics and Volatility
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