‘Labour Processes’ Across the Indo-Pacific: Towards a Comparative Analysis of Civilisational Necessities

摘要: This paper initiates a comparative analysis of the labour process in three different social systems order to shed light on singularities East Asian forms. The point departure for project highlights place substitution central West. There time's flow entails replacement human ingenuity by mechanical power and so distils into Western culture fascination with possibilities that governs much private public life. It suggests problem ‘Civilisation’ derives from this process. By contrast, life South Pacific, amidst cultures historically contiguous those Asia, focuses flows original conditions. In context follows organising sequences, not substitution. features mimetic singularity ascribed, ranked socially appropriate chained action reaction. Asia shares Pacific aesthetic sequence, rank singularity...