Against Technology: From the Luddites to Neo-LuddismRoutledge, 2006 - 277页 When the World Trade Center was attacked, George Gilder referred to the terrorists as "Osama Bin Luddites," suggesting that it was American technology that was under attack. Even today, in the digital age, the turn against technology remains a powerful gesture, and the Luddite cause has not simply disappeared. This book addresses the question of what it might mean today to be a Luddite--that is, to take a stand against technology. Steven Jones here explains the history of the Luddites, British textile works who, from around 1811, proclaimed themselves followers of "Ned Ludd" and smashed machinery they saw as threatening their trade. Against Technology is not a history of the Luddites, but a history of an idea: how the activities of a group of British workers in Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire came to stand for a global anti-technology philosophy, and how an anonymous collective movement came to be identified with an individualistic personal conviction. Angry textile workers in the early nineteenth century became romantic symbols of a desire for a simple life--certainly not the original goal of the actions for which they became famous. Against Technology is, in other words, a book about representations, about the image and the myth of the Luddites and how that myth was transformed over time into modern neo-Luddism. |
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... force - but in this case , a force for destruction and the diminishment of humanity . Neo - Luddism was the resistance that gave the " future " its traction . If it hadn't existed , the technophiles would have had to invent it . Under ...
... force - but in this case , a force for destruction and the diminishment of humanity . Neo - Luddism was the resistance that gave the " future " its traction . If it hadn't existed , the technophiles would have had to invent it . Under ...
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... force . More recent readers have emphasized the monster's role as a force unleashed by science that turns on its makers and competes with humans for existence . Whether this force is to be understood as tech- nology in the modern sense ...
... force . More recent readers have emphasized the monster's role as a force unleashed by science that turns on its makers and competes with humans for existence . Whether this force is to be understood as tech- nology in the modern sense ...
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... force grown bigger and more autonomous than mere tools . Gradually , between 1811 and the present , technology has ceased to seem like something we constructed and has started to seem like something that was constructing us . Neo ...
... force grown bigger and more autonomous than mere tools . Gradually , between 1811 and the present , technology has ceased to seem like something we constructed and has started to seem like something that was constructing us . Neo ...
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THE BOOM THE BUST AND NEOLUDDITES IN THE 1990S | 19 |
THE MYTHIC HISTORY OF THE ORIGINAL LUDDITES | 45 |
ROMANTICIZING THE LUDDITES | 77 |
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