Reification and the Dictatorship of the Water Meter
Reification and the Dictatorship of the Water Meter
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水表的具体化与独裁
DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-8330.2006.00491.x
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发表时间：
2006
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影响因子：
5
通讯作者：
A. Loftus
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作者：
A. Loftus
在这篇文章中，我试图了解水表在调节南非德班的日常生活节奏方面所能获得的力量。在这样做的过程中，我将乔治·卢卡奇关于物化的著作付诸实践。卢卡奇对物化现象的理论化抓住了侵蚀形式合理化和商品拜物教这两个过程。通过绘制水表引入的历史和相关基础设施的崛起，我试图将历史地理唯物主义的想象力付诸实践。因此，在寻求确定可能挑战水表独裁的斗争路线并走向更公平分配水资源的激进民主技术之前，我先开发了一个城市水景的关系本体。
In this paper, I seek to gain an understanding of the power that water meters are able to acquire in regulating the daily rhythms of life in the South African city of Durban. In doing so, I put Georg Lukacs's writings on reification to work. Lukacs's theorisation of the phenomenon of reification captures the twin processes of encroaching formal rationalisation and commodity fetishism. Charting the history of the introduction of water meters and the rise in power of associated infrastructures, I seek to put a historical geographical materialist imagination to work. Thus, I develop a relational ontology of the urban waterscape before seeking to identify lines of struggle that might challenge the dictatorship of the water meter and move towards radically democratic technologies for a more equitable distribution of water.