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Alf Hornborg

Alf Hornborg

Professor emeritus

Alf Hornborg

Beyond Prometheanism : Modern technologies as strategies for redistributing time and space

Författare

  • Alf Hornborg

Summary, in English

Technologies developed since the late eighteenth century differ from earlier forms of technology by being as dependent on world market prices of labour, land and other biophysical resources as on human inventiveness. Yet, whether their outlook is mainstream or heterodox, modern people tend to view technology simply as ingenuity applied to nature, while oblivious of the extent to which it is contingent on the asymmetric exchange of resources in global society. Although inextricably entwined in the real world, the phenomena studied by economics and engineering are kept conceptually separate. This is achieved by disregarding the materiality of world trade. Modern technologies are not just instruments for solving problems but social strategies for redistributing time and space in world society, displacing work and environmental loads to sectors of the world system where wages are lower and environmental legislation less rigorous. Technology should not remain extraneous to social theory. A sociometabolic reconceptualisation of technology is particularly essential for critics of global capitalism.

Avdelning/ar

  • Humanekologi

Publiceringsår

2024

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

28-41

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Environmental Values

Volym

33

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

White Horse Press

Ämne

  • History of Technology

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0963-2719