Introduction: The secret rationale of the industrial revolution
Productive forces as social relations : technology as an object for social theory
The shadow of progress : acknowledging ecologically unequal exchange
References to technology in critical development theory
Stealing time and space : the elusive magic of technology
Energy and labour-power : when all people and all things became instruments
Money and market valuation as the root of our afflictions
Beyond objective values : human ideas in a material world
Solar power for whom? The fantasies of leftist ecomodernism
Mistaking machines for humans : delusions of the material turn
The power of signs : the invisibility of social metabolism before the machine
Progress or parasitism? Money and technology in the world history of inequality
Dismantling the machine : problems in naming the evil
Afterword: Beyond the machine.
