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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... machinery they saw as unfair to their craft and their trade. For the most part, this book is not about those historical Luddites. Instead, it's more about how they have been interpreted and mythologized. It's about how British workers ...
... machinery,” and the early Victorian writer, Thomas Carlyle, for example, saw it increasing its influence over everyday life. Others began to use the term to name a problem: in Victorian parlance, “the machinery question.” But that was ...
... machinery required (and no more). He was adamantly opposed to technological “progress” and profit at the expense of these workers' jobs (and lives). His favorite poem was Oliver Goldsmith's 1770 “Deserted Village,” a nostalgic portrait ...
... machinery by taking it apart, was a familiar kind of do-it-yourself technologist who distrusts authority but thinks he can make something humanly useful out of technology, especially if he “repurposes” it. In other words, to commit a ...
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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 | |