PDF-[EBOOK]-Fascist Pigs: Technoscientific Organisms and the History of Fascism (Inside Technology)

How the breeding of new animals and plants was central to fascist regimes in Italy Portugal and Germany and to their imperial expansionIn the fascist regimes of Mussolinis Italy Salazars Portugal and Hitlers Germany the first mass mobilizations involved wheat engineered to take advantage of chemical fertilizers potatoes resistant to late blight and pigs that thrived on national produce Food independence was an early goal of fascism indeed as Tiago Saraiva writes in Fascist Pigs fascists were obsessed with projects to feed the national body from the national soil Saraiva shows how such technoscientific organisms as specially bred wheat and pigs became important elements in the institutionalization and expansion of fascist regimes The pigs the potatoes and the wheat embodied fascism In Nazi Germany only plants and animals conforming to the new national standards would be allowed to reproduce Pigs that didnt efficiently convert Germangrown potatoes into pork and lard were eliminatedSaraiva describes national campaigns that intertwined the work of geneticists with new state bureaucracies discusses fascist empires considering forced labor on coffee rubber and cotton in Ethiopia Mozambique and Eastern Europe and explores fascist genocides following Karakul sheep from a laboratory in Germany to Eastern Europe Libya Ethiopia and AngolaSaraivas highly original accountthe first systematic study of the relation between science and fascismargues that the back to the land aspect of fascism should be understood as a modernist experiment involving geneticists and their organisms mass propaganda overgrown bureaucracy and violent colonialism. WWII. A. Benito Mussolini. Young Benito. Socialist Party Member. Journalist. Moved to escape military duty in 1902. Came back to Italy in the 1909. Is an anti-royalist. WWI. Socialist Party splits up over whether or not to join the war. AP World History. Fascism – Democracy Denied. World War I causes Europeans to distrust democracy. Communism. Fascism. Communism and fascism struggle for control over many European countries. European countries, especially Germany, are desperate for relief of many ills. . Italy and Germany. Key Questions. 1. a. What was the goal of fascist leaders such as Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini?. b. What actions did they take to accomplish their goals?. 2. How did fascist leaders such as Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini affect the people of their country?. World History - LHS. Fascism. Characteristics. Political philosophy that raises nationalism (& often race) above the individual. Government is centralized. Government headed by a dictator. Strict organization of the economy, society. Italy 1870-1933 – Rise of Mussolini. Pgs. 82-97. Pre ww1 Italian Rule. Italy had only become a unified state in 1861, with the Papal States joining in 1870.. The period of 1870 – 1923 was known as “Liberal Italy”. There were many weaknesses that undermined its ability to govern properly. . Fascism. What is Fascism?. Fascism-. (noun). (Dictionary) a . political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the . Fascisti. ). . that exalts nation and often race above the individual . and that stands for a centralized autocratic . Francisco Goya . 1. ©2011 Pearson Longman . This multimedia product and its contents are protected under copyright . law.. The . following are prohibited by law: . any public performance or display, including transmission of any image over a network; . The Interwar Years 1919-1939. Post War Depression and the Rise of Fascism. International Economic Collapse. Instability as a result of WWI. Dislocation of basic industries after war and unemployment. By: Julie Macias p. 6-7 . What is fascism?. Fascism is a political movement that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a government headed by a dictatorial leader.. Authoritarian States (P2) – Mussolini . How did the political and economic conditions in Italy before 1914 contribute to the emergence of an authoritarian regime? . Italy was the first state anywhere in the world in which a Fascist Party developed, and the first to have a fascist dictator, . Tema 4: Dal fascismo ai giorni nostri . L’ascesa di Mussolini al potere (La nascita del Partito Fascista). Il Fascismo durante la Seconda Guerra Mondiale (Il governo di Mussolini e la dittatura; la vita sotto Mussolini durante la seconda guerra mondiale). How the asset—anything that can be controlled, traded, and capitalized as a revenue stream—has become the primary basis of technoscientific capitalism.In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines argue that the asset—meaning anything that can be controlled, traded, and capitalized as a revenue stream—has become the primary basis of technoscientific capitalism. An asset can be an object or an experience, a sum of money or a life form, a patent or a bodily function. A process of assetization prevails, imposing investment and return as the key rationale, and overtaking commodification and its speculative logic. Although assets can be bought and sold, the point is to get a durable economic rent from them rather than make a killing on the market. Assetization examines how assets are constructed and how a variety of things can be turned into assets, analyzing the interests, activities, skills, organizations, and relations entangled in this process.The contributors consider the assetization of knowledge, including patents, personal data, and biomedical innovation of infrastructure, including railways and energy of nature, including mineral deposits, agricultural seeds, and “natural capital” and of publics, including such public goods as higher education and “monetizable social ills.” Taken together, the chapters show the usefulness of assetization as an analytical tool and as an element in the critique of capitalism.Contributors: Thomas Beauvisage, Kean Birch, Veit Braun, Natalia Buier, Béatrice Cointe, Paul Robert Gilbert, Hyo Yoon Kang, Les Levidow, Kevin Mellet, Sveta Milyaeva, Fabian Muniesa, Alain Nadaï, Daniel Neyland, Victor Roy, James W. Williams Writings by thinkers ranging from Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain to Bruno Latour that focus on the interconnections of technology, society, and values.Technological change does not happen in a vacuum decisions about which technologies to develop, fund, market, and use engage ideas about values as well as calculations of costs and benefits. In order to influence the development of technology for the better, we must first understand how technology and society are inextricably bound together. These writings--by thinkers ranging from Bruno Latour to Francis Fukuyama--help us do just that, examining how people shape technology and how technology shapes people. This second edition updates the original significantly, offering twenty-one new essays along with fifteen from the first edition.The book first presents visions of the future that range from technological utopias to cautionary tales and then introduces several major STS theories. It examines human and social values and how they are embedded in technological choices and explores the interesting and subtle complexities of the technology-society relationship. Remedying a gap in earlier theorizing in the field, many of the texts illustrate how race and gender are intertwined with technology. Finally, the book offers a set of readings that focus on the sociotechnical challenges we face today, treating topics that include cybersecurity, geoengineering, and the myth of neutral technology. Writings by thinkers ranging from Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain to Bruno Latour that focus on the interconnections of technology, society, and values.Technological change does not happen in a vacuum decisions about which technologies to develop, fund, market, and use engage ideas about values as well as calculations of costs and benefits. In order to influence the development of technology for the better, we must first understand how technology and society are inextricably bound together. These writings--by thinkers ranging from Bruno Latour to Francis Fukuyama--help us do just that, examining how people shape technology and how technology shapes people. This second edition updates the original significantly, offering twenty-one new essays along with fifteen from the first edition.The book first presents visions of the future that range from technological utopias to cautionary tales and then introduces several major STS theories. It examines human and social values and how they are embedded in technological choices and explores the interesting and subtle complexities of the technology-society relationship. Remedying a gap in earlier theorizing in the field, many of the texts illustrate how race and gender are intertwined with technology. Finally, the book offers a set of readings that focus on the sociotechnical challenges we face today, treating topics that include cybersecurity, geoengineering, and the myth of neutral technology.