Nature, Society, and Justice in the Anthropocene

Alf Hornborg is an anthropologist and the Professor of Human Ecology at Lunds Universitet, Sweden. He is the author of The Power of the Machine (2001), Global Ecology and Unequal Exchange (2011), and Global Magic (2016). He has conducted field research in Canada, Peru, and Brazil.

• 1. Rethinking economy and technology; 2. The Anthropocene challenge to our worldview; 3. Producing and obscuring global injustices; 4. The money game; 5. Anticipating degrowth; 6. The ontology of technology; 7. Energy technologies as time-space appropriation; 8. Capitalism, energy and the logic of money; 9. Unequal exchange and economic value; 10. Subjects versus objects: artifacts have consequences, not agency; 11. Anthropocene confusions: dithering while the planet burns; 12. Animism, relationism and the ontological turn; 13. Conclusions and possibilities; Afterword: confronting mainstream notions of progress.

'Have you ever wondered just what is the ultimate driving force behind the Anthropocene, the proposed new epoch in Earth history? It's our love of money. This book unravels the complex, profound force of money, not only to structure a global economy but also to destabilise the climate system and drive the Earth's biosphere towards its sixth great extinction event. Alf Hornborg's latest book is a must-read for anyone who wants to understand not only how a feature of everyday life that we all take for granted has the power to disrupt the functioning of an entire planet, but what we can do about it.' Will Steffen, Former executive director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), Københavns Universitet and author of Global Change and the Earth System: A Planet under Pressure