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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... films, images in popular culture, activist subcultures — between 1811 and the present. My goal was to take seriously the dialectical, historical differences between then and now, between Luddites and neo- Luddites. Only in this way, I ...
... films, works of history and popular culture — in order to look at how the idea of the Luddites has been translated over time, and in order to see what has been lost (or added) in the translation. The influ- ence of the original Luddites ...
... films like The Matrix or I, Robot understands this commonplace feeling. (For many, this feeling was only ironically reinforced by events such as the tech-stock bust of spring 2000, the great North American blackout of August 2003, or ...
... films and other popular variations on the Frankenstein story. Chapter 5 offers a practical survey of key novels about the Luddites, from Charlotte Brontë's Shirley to relatively obscure Victorian fiction, twentieth-century historical ...
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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 | |