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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... mythical past. A historian might well wish to correct such distortions of hindsight, as far as this is possible. A literary and cultural critic like me, however, wants primarily to show how those distortions reveal their own meanings ...
... mythical leader. The press treated them sometimes as a fascinating curiosity, sometimes as a movement worth watching, and more often merely as an amusing headline: “Luddites in the 1990s!” A few years later, of course, the tech bubble ...
... mythical creation — he was.8 The whole scene, like the first Luddite congress, is openly imaginary (“whose mythical creation — he was”). The passage reads like the dialogue in a certain kind of historical fiction, where the author ...
... mythical figure, the immediate descendant as it were of General Ludd, the symbolic leader of agricultural protestors and incendiaries in England during the Swing riots of the 1830s. A letter from the original Captain Swing, sent to ...
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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 | |