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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... antitechnology philosophy based on doubts about the whole idea of technological progress. Nonetheless, these quixotic dissidents within the technological society often share with happy technocrats the fundamental assumption that ...
... antitechnology philosophy, how an anonymous collective movement came to be identified with an individualistic personal conviction. How determined weavers and cloth finishers, skilled artisans demanding fair wages and control over their ...
... antitechnology sentiments to a legendary “origin”: the Luddites of 1811.2 The book is divided into two parts: Historical Luddism and neo-Luddism, and its argument for continuity of philosophy and political purpose is implicit in that ...
... antitechnology worldview was at the center of the antiglobalization movement of the 1990s. Neo-Luddite writers and activists set out deliberately to make it so, to connect with the young and relatively unfocused protest movement, aiming ...
... antitechnology philosophy in search of a political movement to which it could become attached. One 1998 article demonstrates this neo-Luddite desire for a movement worthy of its philosophy. It attacks modern “Technolatry,” and ...
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 | |