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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... 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 technological progress with the profound ...
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 | |