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The magic of technology: the machine as a transformation of slavery

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Abstract

Introduction: The secret rationale of the industrial revolution -- Productive forces as social relations : technology as an object for social theory -- The shadow of progress : acknowledging ecologically unequal exchange -- References to technology in critical development theory -- Stealing time and space : the elusive magic of technology -- Energy and labour-power : when all people and all things became instruments -- Money and market valuation as the root of our afflictions -- Beyond objective values : human ideas in a material world -- Solar power for whom? The fantasies of leftist ecomodernism -- Mistaking machines for humans : delusions of the material turn -- The power of signs : the invisibility of social metabolism before the machine -- Progress or parasitism? Money and technology in the world history of inequality -- Dismantling the machine : problems in naming the evil -- Afterword: Beyond the machine.

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