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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... lives — even if in little ways, by avoiding computers or video games, the daily commute in the car, or a cell phone? Or, since it seems increasingly impossible to relinquish or escape from these forms of ever-present technology, at ...
... lives is central; and (2) that it will inevitably increase in the future. In the face of this seeming inevitability, this done-deal with technology, a low- level anxiety persists about what technology is doing to us: the environmental ...
... live with, lives alongside or lies behind modern neo-Luddism and, more often than not, is the symmetrical flipside to the paranoid suspicions of the neo-Luddites. Many neo-Luddites react to the secrets and lies, the broken promises, of ...
... wrote Chapter 7 after talking with two antiglobalization and ecology activists. Some of the protesters in their circle may have worn “Ned Ludd Lives!” Tshirts to demonstrations, but I have absolutely no reason whatsoever to.
... workers' jobs (and lives). His favorite poem was Oliver Goldsmith's 1770 “Deserted Village,” a nostalgic portrait of a fictional English village suffering changes, some of which are brought about by industrialization. I.
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 | |