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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... organic ” and " ancient " precedent was actually a commonplace move in the rhetoric of nineteenth - century radicalism.26 Robin Hood offered an example of a hero of the people acting according to ancient rights to and interests in the ...
... organic ” and " ancient " precedent was actually a commonplace move in the rhetoric of nineteenth - century radicalism.26 Robin Hood offered an example of a hero of the people acting according to ancient rights to and interests in the ...
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... organic vitality , of life itself in its natural form , running amok , getting out of control.17 In this way Frankenstein's science fiction can be seen as the ancestor of biological “ ribofunk ” of Paul Di Filippo or the " wetware " of ...
... organic vitality , of life itself in its natural form , running amok , getting out of control.17 In this way Frankenstein's science fiction can be seen as the ancestor of biological “ ribofunk ” of Paul Di Filippo or the " wetware " of ...
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... organic technology ) is reinforced in the crude illustrations : Primitive animal drawings , invoking children's art ( there is some indication they were drawn by a child or young teenager ) or the cave - drawings of Lascaux , are ...
... organic technology ) is reinforced in the crude illustrations : Primitive animal drawings , invoking children's art ( there is some indication they were drawn by a child or young teenager ) or the cave - drawings of Lascaux , are ...
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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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