Against Technology: From the Luddites to Neo-LuddismRoutledge, 2013年1月11日 - 288页 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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From the Luddites to Neo-Luddism Steven E. Jones. made into the poster children for this assumption. Today “Luddite” often means “deluded technophobe,” even to some self-declared neo-Luddites. The historical record suggests something ...
... Luddites, how Luddism has been mediated and translated by way of various representations — novels, poetry, films, images in popular culture, activist subcultures — between 1811 and the present. My goal was to take seriously the ...
From the Luddites to Neo-Luddism Steven E. Jones. protesting new cloth-finishing machines by smashing them with sledgehammers, they would extrapolate from this and eagerly express their agreement and solidarity with the Luddites ...
From the Luddites to Neo-Luddism Steven E. Jones. In connecting the dots, however, they are in fact constructing the very philosophy they claim to discover in all this “history.” This book aims instead to trace the history of this ...
From the Luddites to Neo-Luddism Steven E. Jones. It's not the primary purpose of this book to correct such ... Luddites really did or meant to do, I choose to ask: What do people say the Luddites did, and why do they say it (and then ...
目录
The Mythic History of The Original Luddites | |
Romanticizing the Luddites | |
Frankenstein and the Monster of Technology | |
Novelizing the Luddites | |
Counterculture and Countercomputer in the 1960s | |
Ned Ludd in the Age of Terror | |
Notes | |
Selected Bibliography | |