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Controlled Nanoscale Motion

Nobel Symposium 131

By: Heiner Linke,Alf Mansson

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Controlled Nanoscale Motion

Nobel Symposium 131

By: Heiner Linke,Alf Mansson

When the size of a machine approaches the nanometer scale, thermal fluctuations become large compared to the energies that drive the motor. The control of motion at the nanoscale therefore requires physical understanding and technical approaches that are fundamentally different from those that are successful at the macroscale. This volume provides an introduction to the state-of-the-art of controlled nanoscale motion in biological and artificial systems. Topics include the control and function of protein motors, the physics of non-equilibrium Brownian motion, and the physics and fabrication of synthetic molecular motors. The chapters in this book are based on selected contributions on the 2005 Nobel Symposium to Controlled Nanoscale Motion and are written by leading experts in their fields.

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3540495215

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The Magic of Technology

The Machine as a Transformation of Slavery

By: Alf Hornborg

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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 natural forces to reinforce social relations of power. Alf Hornborg reflects on how our cultural illusions about technology appeared in history and how they continue to stand in the way of visions for an equal and sustainable world. He argues for a critical reconceptualisation of modern technology as an institution for redistributing human time, resources, and risks in world society. The book highlights a need to think of world trade in other terms than money and raises fundamental questions about the role of human-artifact relations in organising human societies. It will be of interest to a range of scholars working in anthropology, sociology, economics, development studies, and the philosophy of technology.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000686825

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9781000686821

The Power of the Machine

Global Inequalities of Economy, Technology, and Environment

By: Alf Hornborg

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The Power of the Machine

Global Inequalities of Economy, Technology, and Environment

By: Alf Hornborg

Hornborg argues that we are caught in a collective illusion about the nature of modern technology that prevents us from imagining solutions to our economic and environmental crises other than technocratic fixes. He demonstrates how the power of the machine generates increasingly asymmetrical exchanges and distribution of resources and risks between distant populations and ecosystems, and thus an increasingly polarized world order. The author challenges us to reconceptualize the machine--"industrial technomass"--as a species of power and a problem of culture. He shows how economic anthropology has the tools to deconstruct the concepts of production, money capital, and market exchange, and to analyze capital accumulation as a problem at the very interface of the natural and social sciences. His analysis provides an alternative understanding of economic growth and technological development. Hornborg's work is essential for researchers in anthropology, human ecology, economics, political economy, world-systems theory, environmental justice, and science and technology studies. Find out more about the author at the Lund University, Sweden web site.

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Rowman Altamira

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0759100675

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9780759100671

Global Magic

Technologies of Appropriation from Ancient Rome to Wall Street

By: Alf Hornborg

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Global Magic

Technologies of Appropriation from Ancient Rome to Wall Street

By: Alf Hornborg

Modern thought on economics and technology is no less magical than the world views of non-modern peoples. This book reveals how our ideas about growth and progress ignore how money and machines throughout history have been used to exploit less affluent parts of world society. The argument critically explores a middle ground between Marxist political ecology and Actor-Network Theory.

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1137567872

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Liquidate: How Money is Dissolving the World

By: Alf Hornborg

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Liquidate: How Money is Dissolving the World

By: Alf Hornborg

Liquidate: How Money is Dissolving the World examines the emergence of money and its social and ecological repercussions. It views money as a new phenomenon in the evolution of life that has fundamentally transformed ecosystems and human social relations. The appearance of coined money around 600 BCE coincided with the first abstract philosophies and religions. This book shows how changes in human–environmental relations have reflected changes in social relations generated by money. The detached modern view of nature mirrors the socially detached modern individual. However, the abandonment of animism has not diminished the human propensity for fetishism – the perception of artefacts such as money tokens as indexes of what they represent. Market prices obscure the asymmetric global resource transfers that make increasingly advanced technologies possible where there is enough money. Our fetishised understandings of money and technologies cannot deal with the escalating production of entropy underlying climate change. They also drive the dramatic reduction of biological and cultural diversity under globalisation. Given these problems, many people reassess premodern and indigenous societies in search of more sustainable ideas on how to organise exchange. Liquidate: How Money is Dissolving the World will be of interest to scholars working in anthropology, sociology, economics, history, semiotics, comparative religions, and indigenous studies.

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1040251471

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Controlled Nanoscale Motion

Nobel Symposium 131

By: Heiner Linke,Alf Mansson

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Nobel Symposium 131

By: Heiner Linke,Alf Mansson

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Book's by Alf Mansson

Controlled Nanoscale Motion

Controlled Nanoscale Motion

The Magic of Technology

The Magic of Technology

The Power of the Machine

The Power of the Machine

Global Magic

Global Magic

Liquidate: How Money is Dissolving the World

Liquidate: How Money is Dissolving the World

Controlled Nanoscale Motion

Controlled Nanoscale Motion

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