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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... political activists, actually knew a little about the history of the British textile workers in the early nineteenth century who were threatened with redundancy and fought back under the banner of General Ned Ludd, and many of those who ...
... political interpretations of Kirkpatrick Sale (who read E. P. Thompson's social history) and have come to accept the vague collective wisdom that all of these cultural products and events have one thing in common: “the Luddite ...
... political meaning (as in “take a stand”), is also a way of saying what they stand for, are signs for, what they represent. Even many self-described neo-Luddites unwittingly participate in what historian E. P. Thompson called the ...
... political legacy (to allude to the title of one of the Luddite novels I discuss below). The legacy of the Luddites includes our own meaningful (if not always conscious) distortions of Luddite history. So what is the fascination of the ...
... political views and get their jokes, and to some degree I share their larger concerns. I like going offline sometimes, and I really, really hate it when people talk on cell phones at the beach. More seriously, I oppose shortsighted ...
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 | |