02050    a2200277   4500001001100000005001700011008003900028020001800067037003600085040000700121041000800128072001600136072001500152072001400167072001300181072002100194072002100215072001800236100001800254245005800272250000600330260003200336300001000368520137900378999001501757135161524620250317111638.0250312042017GB                   eng    a9781351615242  bTaylor & FranciscGBP 45.99fBB  a01  aeng7 aJHBA2thema7 aRNA2thema7 aJHBA2bic7 aRNA2bic7 aSOC0000002bisac7 aSOC0260002bisac7 a304.282bisac1 aMartyn Hudson10aSpecies and MachinesbThe Human Subjugation of Nature  a1  aOxfordbRoutledgec20170918  a188 p  bThis 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.  c7342d7342