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Species and Machines - The Human Subjugation of Nature (Paperback)
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Species and Machines - The Human Subjugation of Nature (Paperback)
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This book offers a re-examination of the relationship between
humans and nature with a new methodology: by examining our
entanglement with machines. Using central ideas of critical theory,
it uncovers the suppression of nature through technology, tools and
engines. It focuses on the ways in which human social forms have
actively subjugated and destroyed other species in order to enhance
their own social power and accumulation, leading to a new
Anthropocene epoch in which human intervention is signalled in the
geological record. Beginning with an account of the interactions
between humans and other species, the book moves on to explore the
hidden history of Marx and his obsession with machines, as well as
new attempts to rethink a Marxist ecology, before proceeding to
examine the manner in which technologies were used to suppress and
destroy one particular species - the Whale of what we call the
Cetacean Holocaust. Following this, there are analyses of the
emergence of the 'human encampments' of the cities and the rise of
mobile, locomotive cultures, and consideration of the relationship
between machines of memory, and the 'capturing' of nature. A
radical rethinking of classical social theory that develops new
ways of thinking about ecological catastrophe and nature, this book
will appeal to scholars of social theory and environmental
sociology.
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