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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... though he's not too crazy about technology himself). Neil Fraistat read early drafts and shared them with the students in his Techno-Romanticism class. Several classes of my own at Loyola University Chicago helped me formulate and.
... Romantics. In other words, this is a book about the image and the myth of the Luddites, how the myth was made and how it was transformed over time into modern neo-Luddism. I'm an English professor, not a historian. But I do study and ...
... Romantics such as Thoreau in their veneration of nature and hatred of factory smokestacks. Some of those I spoke with, especially among my academic colleagues or younger political activists, actually knew a little about the history of ...
... Romanticism, a version of the transcendental philosophy that would rise above its own times and reject “the future,” projecting an alternative, utopian possibility that, paradoxically, involves a nostalgic return to an older way of life ...
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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 | |