Changing our Environment, Changing Ourselves

James S. Ormrod is a Principal Lecturer in Sociology, University of Brighton, UK. His research interests are in social movements and the relationships human beings have with their environment and the universe in general. He is the author of Fantasy and Social Movements (2014) and, with Peter Dickens, Cosmic Society (2007).

- Introduction: Changing our environment, changing ourselves.- PART I: THE WORK OF PETER DICKENS.- 1. Peter Dickens: Late capitalism, nature and mental life.- 2. Defragmenting nature: Themes in Peter Dickens’s work.- PART II: PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEORETICAL DEBATES.- 3. Environmental alienation.- 4. Marx’s universal metabolism of nature and the Frankfurt School: Dialectical contradictions and critical syntheses.- PART III: EMERGING ISSUES.- 5. Metabolic rift theory and the crisis of our foodways.- 6. Satellite farming, food and human wellbeing.- 7. Computers and the alienation of thinking: From Deep Blue to the Googlemobile.- 8. Society, nature and experience: Jouissance on the margins.