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Institute for Social Ecology: **An Important New Book on the Praxis of Social Ecology**

https://social-ecology.org/wp/2025/08/praxis-of-social-ecology/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=praxis-of-social-ecology

A review of Eleanor Finley's new book, Practicing Social Ecology: From Bookchin to Rojava and Beyond
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Reading #AndreasMalm's _ #FossilCapital _ convinces me again that #ProgressIsALie. An article by #BrianTokar sent me to Malm's books and they seem very helpful so far. They complement #AmitavGhosh's doubts about the "#Anthropocene" term:
> .. if some humans introduced steam power against the explicit resistance of other humans, then it would be hard to maintain a notion of it as the expression of a species-wide project... steam arose as a form of power exercised by some people against others..

> ... watermills remained far more efficient and reliable for several decades into the coal era, and there was never a shortage of potential sites for new water-powered textile mills. However rural workers who lived along England’s riverbanks were far more independent-minded and more likely to abandon the mills when working conditions became too onerous, vs. often-desperate urban workers..
https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-technologys-past-and-future/
#BrianTokar #AndreasMalm #OnTechnology #WaterMills #SteamEngines #TextileMills

> David Noble’s detailed examination of the origins of numerically controlled machine tools in the mid-20th century. ... to implement this initial step toward industrial automation, manufacturers had to overlook widespread inefficiencies and a loss of much of the knowledge... The perceived overarching benefit, however, was to disempower shop floor labor and concentrate knowledge and control in... managers.
- https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/on-technologys-past-and-future/
#progress #tech #BrianTokar #DavidNoble