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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... Trade Center , or even a flashlight - than they can feed ( never mind , free ) the oppressed masses whose interests they claim to advance . But armed with hijacked technologies and apocalyptic grudges , they pose a devastating menace to ...
... Trade Center , or even a flashlight - than they can feed ( never mind , free ) the oppressed masses whose interests they claim to advance . But armed with hijacked technologies and apocalyptic grudges , they pose a devastating menace to ...
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... trade differences across the nation , this is the basic vocabulary of Luddism , too , taken from that area of workers ' culture in various trades where guild and trade prac- tices overlap with popular customs , local lore , and licensed ...
... trade differences across the nation , this is the basic vocabulary of Luddism , too , taken from that area of workers ' culture in various trades where guild and trade prac- tices overlap with popular customs , local lore , and licensed ...
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... trade could prosper . Nostalgia plays a surprisingly limited role in their campaign to put right wages and trade relations , though they do make confident appeals to centuries - old trade relations . The Luddites were not rebels against ...
... trade could prosper . Nostalgia plays a surprisingly limited role in their campaign to put right wages and trade relations , though they do make confident appeals to centuries - old trade relations . The Luddites were not rebels against ...
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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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