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Index
Dedication
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Table of Figures
Preface
Introduction - The Machine As Emperor
I - TECHNOLOGY AND UNEQUAL EXCHANGE
1 - Technology and Economics: The Interfusion of the Social and the Material
TECHNO-ECONOMICS
INDUSTRIALISM AND THE LOGIC OF MONEY: THE ALGORITHM OF DESTRUCTION
TECHNOLOGY AS SALVATION OR CURSE: A VIEW FROM 1962
2 - Cornucopia or Zero-Sum Game: The Epistemology of Sustainability
THE ZERO-SUM PERSPECTIVE: FAILURES AND PROSPECTS
THE CORNUCOPIA MODEL: IS GROWTH REALLY GOOD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT?
3 - The Thermodynamics of Imperialism: Toward an Ecological Theory of Unequal Exchange
UNEQUAL EXCHANGE: PROBLEMS OF CONCEPTUALIZATION
“EMERGY” AND VALUE
“EXERGY,” PRICES, AND THE SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY
CAPITAL ACCUMULATION AND THE APPROPRIATION OF ENERGY
4 - Ecosystems, World Systems, and Environmental Justice
PREAMBLE: POSTMODERN SOCIAL SCIENCE AND THE CONCEPT OF JUSTICE
ECOSYSTEMS AND WORLD SYSTEMS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
MODES OF ACCUMULATION AND “DEVELOPMENT” AS PRIVILEGE
A WIDENED CONCEPT OF CAPITAL FOR A “GREEN” DEPENDENCY THEORY
5 - Conceptualizing Accumulation from Spondylus Shells to Fossil Fuels
TOWARD A TRANSDISCIPLINARY UNDERSTANDING OF ACCUMULATION
MODES OF CONVERSION AND MODES OF ACCUMULATION
A PRE-COLUMBIAN CASE STUDY: MODES OF ACCUMULATION IN THE ANCIENT ANDES
ANDEAN CULTURE HISTORY AS SHIFTS IN CENTER-PERIPHERY RELATIONSHIPS: OUTLINES OF A TOPOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION
ACCUMULATION BASED ON SYMBOLIC VERSUS INTRINSIC “PRODUCTIVITY”
6 - Use Value, Energy, and the Image of Unlimited Good
THE CONFLATION OF USE VALUE AND EXCHANGE VALUE
THERMODYNAMICS AND THE ECONOMY OF “ORDER”
ENERGY, VALUE, AND SOCIETY: SOME PERVASIVE PROBLEMS IN EARLIER THEORY
CIRCULATION VERSUS LINEAR FLOW
ECONOMIES AND TECHNOLOGIES AS CULTURAL CONSTRUCTIONS
7 - Language and the Material: Probing Our Categories
CRITICISM AND LANGUAGE
MATERIALITY AND CULTURE
EXISTENTIAL FOUNDATIONS: LANGUAGE AND TECHNOLOGY
THE METAPHOR OF GROWTH
THE EPISTEMOLOGY OF CULTURAL CRITIQUE
DISTINCTIONS THAT MYSTIFY
8 - Symbolic Technologies: Machines and the Marxian Notion of Fetishism
EARLY HISTORY OF A CONCEPT: A BRIEF SKETCH
AUTONOMOUS PRODUCTIVITY AS CORE THEME
PERSONIFICATION, ALIENATION, AND OBJECTIFICATION: A SEMIOTIC APPROACH
THE FETISH AS INFRA- AND SUPERSTRUCTURE, TRUE AND FALSE
ASSESSING THE USES OF FETISHISM
NARROWING THE MARXIAN NOTION OF FETISHISM
MACHINE FETISHISM, OR THE POWER OF THE MACHINE
MACHINE AS EMPEROR, EMPEROR AS MACHINE
II - MONEY, MODERNITY, AND PERSONHOOD
9 - Money, Reflexivity, and the Semiotics of Modernity
MATERIALIZED MEANINGS AND THE MEANING OF “MATERIAL”
TRANSCENDING DUALISM AND ADDRESSING REAL PROBLEMS
MONEY, MEANING, AND THE OPERATIONAL LOGIC OF EMPTY SIGNS
THE VACUITY OF ABSTRACTION
A RECOVERY OF SPECIFICITY?
10 - Ecology As Semiotics: A Contextualist Manifesto
VULGAR MATERIALISM OR HEGELIAN ECOLOGY?
HOMEOSTATS AND CONSCIOUS PURPOSE
THE MONIST FOUNDATION OF CONTEXTUALISM
THE CASE FOR A RECONTEXTUALIZATION OF KNOWLEDGE
METAPHOR, MORALITY, AND POLICY
CONCLUDING REMARKS ON CONTEXTUALISM AND IDEOLOGY
11 - Exchange, Personhood, and Human Ecology
THE HUMAN ECOLOGICAL TRIANGLE
HUMAN ECOLOGY AND PERSONHOOD
FROM ANIMAL MASTERS TO ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
SPACE, EXCHANGE, AND THE SELF
“LOCAL” VERSUS “GLOBAL” IDENTITY AND THE VARIETIES OF ENVIRONMENTALIST CONCERN
12 - The Abstraction of Discourse and Identity: A Case Study
THE MI’KMAQ: A BRIEF ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY
ACTORS AND ARGUMENTS IN THE PUBLIC PROCESS
DISCOURSE AS NEGOTIATION OF IDENTITY AND CREDIBILITY
THE AUTHENTIC AND THE CORRUPT
ENVIRONMENTALISM AND THE STATE
OBJECTIFYING MODERNITY: CONCEPTUAL ENCOMPASSMENT AS POWER
THE “GLOBAL” MINDFRAME AND THE SUBSUMPTION OF CRITIQUE
SPIRITUALITY AS REVOLT AGAINST MODERNITY
BEYOND NOSTALGIA AND CYNICISM: INDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTALISM AND THE POLITICS OF ECOLOGICAL IRONY
Afterword - Culture, Modernity, and Power—The Relevance of Anthropology
References
Index
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