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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... cause or philosophy (though I had been careful not to explain the events of 1811 to 1816 in those terms). Whereas I told the story of, say, Yorkshire Luddites protesting new cloth-finishing machines by smashing them with sledgehammers, ...
... sledgehammers, they would extrapolate from this and eagerly express their agreement and solidarity with the Luddites' “philosophy,” by which they meant that they often feel too dependent on their cars or enraged at their desktop ...
... of the invention of “King” or “General” Ludd himself, who may very well have been named after a simpleton), violent in its rhetoric and as direct as a sledgehammer in its actions. It's not the primary purpose of this book to correct.
... sledgehammer — in an age of ubiquitous computing, biotech agents, micro-surveillance, and data mining, a seemingly omnipresent and increasingly autonomous, “liquid” technology. Some neo-Luddites look back to the Luddites as a model of ...
... sledgehammer, splintering the plastic case and CRT monitor to enthusiastic applause. Other neo-Luddites — Sven Birkerts, David Noble, Clifford Stoll, Theodore Roszak, and Neil Postman — to varying degrees shared with Sale the basic ...
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 | |