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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... nineteenth century who were threatened with redundancy and fought back under the banner of General Ned Ludd, and many of those who knew about the original Luddites viewed them sympathetically, as doomed and tragic fighters against ...
... nineteenth-century- style perennial garden. I don't mean to imply that these two thoughtful and ethically aware friends are being hypocritical — far from it. Many in my experience are, like them, Luddites in the philosophical sense ...
... century antitechnology sentiments to a legendary “origin”: the Luddites of 1811.2 The book is divided into two parts ... nineteenth century producers” being replaced by “the irritation of late-twentieth-century consumers.” 4 Neo-Luddism ...
... Nineteenth-century Manchester, with its relatively diverse and rootless new industrial society, was perhaps more like many modern neo-Luddites' own cultural contexts than was the guild-based customary labor subculture of the Nottingham ...
... nineteenth-century farmers who were using a new kind of threshing machine, combines direct threat with mythic authority: This is to inform you what you have to undergo. Gentlemen if providing you don't pull down your meshenes and rise ...
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 | |