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Tables of Contents for The Power of the Machine
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of figures and maps
vii
Preface
ix
Introduction: The Machine As Emperor
1
8
Part 1 Technology and Unequal Exchange
Technology and Economics: The Interfusion of the Social and the Material
9
14
Cornucopia or Zero-Sum Game: The Epistemology of Sustainability
23
12
The Thermodynamics of Imperialism: Toward an Ecological Theory of Unequal Exchange
35
14
Ecosystems, World Systems, and Environmental Justice
49
16
Conceptualizing Accumulation from Spondylus Shells to Fossil Fuels
65
24
Use Value, Energy, and the Image of Unlimited Good
89
22
Language and the Material: Probing Our Categories
111
20
Symbolic Technologies: Machines and the Marxian Notion of Fetishism
131
26
Part 2 Money, Modernity, and Personhood
Money, Reflexivity, and the Semiotics of Modernity
157
18
Ecology As Semiotics: A Contextualist Manifesto
175
16
Exchange, Personhood, and Human Ecology
191
20
The Abstraction of Discourse and Identity: A Case Study
211
26
Afterword: Culture, Modernity, and Power-The Relevance of Anthropology
237
8
References
245
16
Index
261
12
About the Author
273