Pomeranz 'The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy' (2000)
Good occasion to (re)read Kenneth Pomeranz 'The Great Divergence' 2000, marvellous chapter 'Abolishing the land constraints' & phantom acres
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If you wonder why no one worry about ecology read Pomeranz last chapter: who would bother about the Earth if land constraints are abolished?
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Pomeranz marvellous book shows how the Land-Earth has been replaced by a Land-Globe & its phantom acres. Now the land constraints come back.
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The great divergence was due to the possibility of moving from real land constraints to an impression of global infinity, for 1,5 century.
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Some people calculate that the world needs 5 planets. But Pomeranz shows that with phantom acres, Europe had indeed 5 planets, for a while.
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The bewilderment of Westerners seeing the Earth behind the Globe is due to the fact they really believed they had access to an infinite land
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How do you want those who have abolished the land constraints because of the phantom acres or because of Gnosticism to have a feel for Earth
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It's significant that US Republicans deny the land constraints for religious AND economic reasons: they had been sent offshore, not on Earth
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To be materialist, meaning the Globe, is not the same thing as being materialist, meaning the Earth. It is this confusion ecology reveals.
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This is the confusion Globe/Earth that we will try to explore among others in the 'Reset Modernity!' exhibition with the public & curators.
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External Resources
Pomeranz, Kenneth. The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. The Princeton Economic History of the Western World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 2000.
“Pomeranz, K.: The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy. (eBook and Paperback).” Accessed March 15, 2016. http://press.princeton.edu/titles/6823.html.