Low-tech is Part of the Sociological Imagination for the Age of Re-embodiments
Posted by Ruth Thomas-Pellicer on November 9, 2009 |
While the challenge of disembodiment follows from the Neolithic Revolution and a fortiori the practice of metallurgy, it is a recent series of industrial revolutions that have perilously intensified it: At what rates of dis/embodiment are human societies –or some of their groups— willing to live in order to erect what kind of global civilization? The heightened ecocidal nature of our contemporaneity, to be sure, seems to prescribe that Western/ized societies engage in the opposite exercise and start re-embodying and re-embed their lifestyles. It may thus be wise to recentre sociology, politics and economics around this process which popular struggles around the world have already initiated: we need a sociological imagination of the Age of Re-embodiments. Low-tech Magazine provides a good starting-point for our imagination.
Tags: Age of Re-embodiments > ecocidal contemporaneity > industrial revolutions > low-tech > popular struggles > rate of dis/embodiment > sociological imagination
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