David Watson (3) (1951–)
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This is an important and overlooked document in the history of the last 30 years of radical thought, which asks questions few are willing to ask in a sincere, unflinching way. Are the problems of technology more deeply rooted and pervasive than we have previously been willing to consider? In a world system whose trajectory is clearly toward always increasing, always accelerating production, is capitalism more meaningfully understood as a mode of being than a narrowly-defined set of property relations? When will we stop thinking of environmental disasters as aberrations avoidable through regulation and recognize that they are an essential product of the megamachine?
As I write this Japan is probably about to experience a nuclear meltdown. I believe the tragic truth of this book is absolutely essential for our survival.… (mehr)