By Alf Hornborg

In previous chapters I have suggested that the accumulation of machinery at certain points or within certain sectors of the world system is in a sense analogous to the organic growth of biomass. Indeed, our taslk of economic “growth” is a revealing metaphor, for the Old English growan referred to biological processes such as “to produce by cultivation; to raise; to develop naturally.” To “accumulate” (from Latin ad cumulus, “to heap) means “to grow into a mass,” and the word “mass” means “the quantity of matter in a body.” Both biological and industrial “growth,” it seems, are processes of accumulation. We are used to thinking of that which is accumulated as “mass” or “matter,” but Schrodinger and Georgescu-Roegan have demonstrated that is is really a question of orderliness — that is, negative entropy.

By Rod Bush

The modern civil rights movement captured center stage in the dramas of race relations in the United States, and dominated civil society for much of the 1950s and 1960s. To the extent that it appealed to white Americans on the basis of the American dream, so long as it sought to complete the great American Revolution of 1776, it was extremely flattering. But the civil rights movement was not the only show in town. Not all Black people held to these integrationist dreams.

The opportunities in industrialized sectors of the world for women to live and work independent of traditional kinship ties have created the conditions where it is possible for more and more women to refuse marriage and to shape our lives around affective, sexualized bonds withone another. On the one hand, lesbian relationships, identities, and desires are more possible and allowed — increasingly destigmatized, incorporated into the mainstream, and even glamorized in popular film, television, and advertising.