…at forecasting that are all too common, that try to paint an inevitable future based on one narrow domain, whether economics (e.g. The World is Flat) or technology (singularity worship). I liked the World-Systems Analysis book - compared to most social science, it was at least readable and truly interesting in many parts. He's not so cagey, hedged, and recalcitrant a writer that one can't filter out his opinions, like…
……这基本上就是列宁论文《帝国主义是资本主义的最高阶段》的现代更新版，并且辅以大量的历史叙事来支撑。如果你去读沃勒斯坦对世界体系理论的简短介绍《World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction》，你就会领教到当他被迫把自己的想法简明扼要地写在纸上时，其理论是多么的一团乱麻（spaghetti）。而且书的最后三分之一专门用来讨论一种……
…This is basically an updating of Lenin's essay "Capitalism: The Highest Stage of Imperialism", buttressed with a great deal of historical narrative. If you read Wallerstein's short introduction to WST, World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction, you'll get an idea of what a theoretical spaghetti his thought is when pressed to put it down simply and briefly on the page. And the last third of the book is devoted to a kind of…
……那种太常见的预测方式，非要基于某个狭窄的领域去勾勒一个不可避免的未来，不管是经济学领域（比如《世界是平的》）还是技术领域（奇点崇拜）。我很喜欢《World-Systems Analysis》这本书——跟大多数社会科学著作相比，它至少读得下去，而且很多地方确实非常有趣。他并不是那种遮遮掩掩、留一手、顽固晦涩的作者，以至于你没法把他的个人观点过滤掉，比如……
…at forecasting that are all too common, that try to paint an inevitable future based on one narrow domain, whether economics (e.g. The World is Flat) or technology (singularity worship). I liked the World-Systems Analysis book - compared to most social science, it was at least readable and truly interesting in many parts. He's not so cagey, hedged, and recalcitrant a writer that one can't filter out his opinions, like…
……这基本上就是列宁论文《帝国主义是资本主义的最高阶段》的现代更新版，并且辅以大量的历史叙事来支撑。如果你去读沃勒斯坦对世界体系理论的简短介绍《World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction》，你就会领教到当他被迫把自己的想法简明扼要地写在纸上时，其理论是多么的一团乱麻（spaghetti）。而且书的最后三分之一专门用来讨论一种……
…This is basically an updating of Lenin's essay "Capitalism: The Highest Stage of Imperialism", buttressed with a great deal of historical narrative. If you read Wallerstein's short introduction to WST, World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction, you'll get an idea of what a theoretical spaghetti his thought is when pressed to put it down simply and briefly on the page. And the last third of the book is devoted to a kind of…