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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... nature, as voluntary primitives and Romantics. In other words, this is a book about the image and the 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 ...
... nature — the rainforest instead of the city. A few mentioned Ted Kaczynski, the notorious Unabomber. Wasn't he the most famous recent Luddite? A few fellow academics compared the Luddites to British Romantic authors such as Wordsworth ...
... nature by Wordsworth, learned about agricultural enclosures and the birth of the factory system, then put that together with a phrase about “Satanic Mills” from Blake. To them, all this is bound together as “Luddism.” They may have once ...
... nature in voluntary simplicity. This oddly philosophical, abstract view of Luddism has very little to do with the historical Luddites. It overemphasizes the Romantic idea of nature and the problem of individual consciousness (and “ideas ...
... nature against industrial (and now postindustrial) development. Romantic poetry written at the time of the Luddites does frequently idealize nature apart from what humanity has done to it (which is one definition of technology), and it ...
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 | |