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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... myth of the Luddites, how the myth was made and how it was transformed over time into modern neo-Luddism. I'm an English professor, not a historian. But I do study and interpret literary works from the past, along with their historical ...
... myth, I came to understand, the Luddites get transformed into today's neo-Luddism — sleight-of-hand trick that ... myths and legends, which are all we really have, as well as the not-always-conscious influence of those representations ...
... myths. Some assume that Luddism is just another form of Romanticism, a version of the transcendental philosophy that would rise above its own times and reject “the future,” projecting an alternative, utopian possibility that ...
... myths began to be made (Chapters 2 and 6), and on readings of literary works, films, or other cultural representations of ... myth, as those who set in motion the process of Luddite mythmaking still at work today. Chapter 3 examines the ...
... myth alongside the Luddite myth — including in the numerous 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 ...
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 | |