ABSTRACT Established in 1823 as an industrial enclave, Lowell, Massachusetts, was described by a network of canals that diverted waterpower to an array of integrated cotton textile mills. The qualitative advances in engineering and materials science, which drew from and propelled the productive consumption of industrialisation, were particularly manifest in the construction, equipping and powering of Lowell’s mills. Industrialisation re-shaped European and American societies, ecologies and environmental systems. Recent research has adopted the term Anthropocene to describe the distinct era of planetary history that corresponds to that Euro-American industrial revolution in textile manufacturing. Beyond the most obvious input of human labour, a variety of material inputs — wood, iron, limestone, clay — drove that industrial production, each linked with a cascade of effects some distance from the point of production. While the socio-cultural impact of Lowell as a manufacturing centre has been explored in regard to its hydropower and labour forms, how that productive consumption remade social and ecological environments, in unintended but highly consequential ways, remains under-theorised.

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工业洛厄尔和人类世的黎明

摘要：马萨诸塞州洛厄尔市成立于 1823 年，当时是一个工业飞地，由运河网络描述，该运河将水能转移到一系列综合棉纺织厂。工程和材料科学的质的进步，从工业化的生产消费中汲取和推动，在洛厄尔工厂的建造、设备和供电方面尤为明显。工业化重塑了欧美社会、生态和环境系统。最近的研究采用了人类世这个术语来描述与欧美纺织制造业工业革命相对应的行星历史的独特时代。除了最明显的人力投入之外，各种材料投入——木材、铁、石灰石、粘土——推动了工业生产，每一个都与离生产点有一定距离的一系列效果相关联。虽然洛厄尔作为制造中心的社会文化影响已在其水电和劳动力形式方面进行了探索，但生产性消费如何以意想不到但高度后果的方式重塑社会和生态环境，仍然存在理论不足。