The Magic of Technology: The Machine as a Transformation of Slavery

by 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 accumulating, through physically asymmetric exchange, the material means of harnessing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032210842
• ISBN13: 9781032210841
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"