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Chargement... In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations (édition 1992)par Jerry Mander (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreIn the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations par Jerry Mander
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I recommend the last section on contemporary indigenous struggles. It is the one part that successfully integrates his main themes with specific case studies. The preceding chapters seem to me like two distinct, unfinished books: one on Native Americans and another on technology. He says at the beginning that this was his original plan. However, for the reader who knows nothing about critiques of technology or indigenous people, this book is a fine place to start. ( ) Introduction “Indians Shmindians” Part one: Question we should have asked about technology Growing up with technology: City, Woods, Suburbs; Shopping; Family Doctor; Milton Berle; Family Buick; Florida; Summer Camp; Democracity; The American Dream Fantasy and reality: Ingredients of the Pro-Technology Paradigm The importance of the negative view: “Holistic” Criticism; Guilty Until Proven Innocent; Retrospective Technology Assessment: Cars and Telephones; Victim of Technology; Ten Recommended Attitudes About Technology Part two: The inevitable direction of megatechnology Seven negative points about computers: Pollution and Health; Employment; Quantification and Conceptual Change; Surveillance; The Rate Acceleration; Centralization; Worst-Case Scenario: Automatic Computer Warfare; Can We Blame Computers? Television (1): Audiovisual training for the modern world Living Inside Media; Freedom of Speech for the Wealthy; The Technology of Passivity; Acceleration of the Nervous System; Perceptual Speedup and Confusion; The Politics of Confused Reality; The Television President; Late News: Video War Television (2): Satellites and the cloning of cultures. The case of Dene Indians “Unpopulated Icy Wasteland”; Invasion from Outer Space; Testimonies; Effects on Storytelling; Visit to School; The Ravens Corporations as machines Corporate Shame; Corporate Schizophrenia; The Corporate/Human Dilemma: Three Cases; Eleven Inherent Rules of Corporate Behavior; Form Is Content Leaving the earth: space colonies, Disney, and EPCOT Business Opportunities in Space; Futurist Love Space Travel; Star Seeding: Sending the “Best Humans” to Space; Banishment from Eden; The West Edmonton Mall, Edmonton, Canada; EPCOT Center, Orlando, Florida; San Francisco, the Theme Park; Antidote: Reinhabitation of the Earth Chapter ten: In the absence of the sacred Molecular Engineering; The Postbiological Age; The Madness of the Astronaut; Megatechnology; Statement on the Modern World Part three: Suppression of the native alternative Chapter eleven: What Americans don’t know about Indians The Media: Indians Are Non-News; Prevalent Stereotypes and Formulas; Indians and the New Age; Cultural Darwinism Chapter twelve: Indians are different from Americans “Mother Earth”; Table of Inherent Differences; “We Are Helping You” Chapter thirteen: The gift of democracy Rule Without Coercion; Our Founding Fathers, the Iroquois; The Great Binding Law of the Iroquois Confederacy; Iroquois Nation, 1991 Chapter fourteen: Lessons in stone-age economics Pre-Technological Leisure; Banker’s Hours; Dietary Intake; Deliberate Underproduction; The Choice of Subsistence; The Creation of “Poverty”; Fast Forward: Leisure in Technotopia; The Alleged Superiority of Modern Resource Management Part four: World war against the Indians Chapter Fifteen: The imperative to destroy traditional Indian governments. The Case of Hopi and Navajo Declaration of Independence; First Came the Hopi; Arrival of the Navajo; Hopi-Navajo Symbiosis; The Americanization of Indian Governments; Current Events Chapter sixteen: The imminent theft of Alaska From communal to Corporate; The Requirements of Corporate Profit; “Social Engineering”; ANCSA’s Effect on the Yupic Eskimos; Resistance to Cash Economy; Reinstatement of Native Governments Chapter seventeen: The theft of Nevada. The Case of the Western Shoshones Land or Money?; Indian Claims Commission: Plot Against the Indians; “ We Should Have Listened to Our Old People”; The Dann Sisters’ Case; MX Missile; Visits with the Government; Current Events Chapter eighteen: Desecration of Sacred Lands. The Case of the Native Hawaiians The Fourth of July, 1980; The Great Mahele; The Invasion of Kahoolawe; The Desecration of Pele; Current Events Chapter nineteen: World news briefs (1): The Pacific Basin and Asia “Fourth World” Wars; The Pacific Basin; Asia Chapter twenty: World news briefs (2): Canada, Europe, Africa, Latin America Epilogue: The new order and the new resistance Market Economy; “We Can’t Go Back”; Signs of Life; Against Pessimism aucune critique | ajouter une critique
In his critically acclaimed Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, author and social critic Jerry Mander proclaimed that television, by its fundamental nature, is dangerous--to personal health and sanity, to the environment, and to the democratic process. With In the Absence of the Sacred, he goes beyond television to critique our technological society as a whole. In this provocative work, Mander challenges the utopian promise of technological society and tracks its devastating impact on native cultures worldwide. The Western world’s loss of a sense of the sacred in the natural world, he says, has led us toward global environmental disaster and social disorder--and worse lies ahead. Yet models for restoring our relationship with the Earth exist in the cultures of native peoples, whose values and skills have enabled them to survive centuries of invasion and exploitation. Far from creating paradise on Earth, technology has instead produced an unsustainable contest for resources. Mander surveys the major technologies shaping the "new world order”--computers, telecommunications, space exploration, genetic engineering, robotics, and the corporation itself--and warns that they are merging into a global mega-technology, with dire environmental and political results. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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