The high tech fix : sustainable ecology or technocratic megaprojects for the 21st century?
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Bibliographic Information
The high tech fix : sustainable ecology or technocratic megaprojects for the 21st century?
(Avebury series in philosophy)
Avebury, c1991
Available at 15 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this book, the author distinguishes two broad metaphysical world views: the technocratic and the pernetarian, or the technocentric and the ecocentric paradigms. His aim in this book is to present a case against the technocratic/technocentric paradigm, as well as to inform Australian, European, American and Asian readers about the multifunction polis and the larger crisis in Australian society. Japanese technocracy, which is to be implemented increasingly in Australia, is, according to the author, Orwellian in the extent of its oppression and control, where the political process is degraded into a form of scientific management of public opinion. He predicts that the social, cultural and economic pain felt acutely by Australians will soon radiate to engulf the rest of the world.
Table of Contents
- The tyranny of technocracy - Japanese megaprojects for the 21st century
- on the multifunction polls concept - an interpretation and critique of a flawed and myopic vision of humanity's future
- it came from the swamps, MFP - Adelaide at Gillman - the environmental debate
- a future made in Japan? a critique of Japanese power and the myth of Asia-Pacific millennarianism
- sustainable ecology and the architecture of ecological collapse - a critique of blind opportunistic growth syndrome
- the political economy of national autonomy and self-reliance - beyond internationalization and economic rationalism
- the lateness of the house, the darkness of the coming night - politics and economics beyond the high tech fix.
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