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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... story goes) by adopting a general antitechnology philosophy are called Luddites. Some defiantly pin the label on themselves, as if the name itself counted as a form of resistance. But today what does it mean to identify yourself as a ...
... story of the Luddites have always formed part of the historical context of the Romantic-period literature I study and teach. Since the mid 1990s, especially, I've noticed that the history of the Luddites has increasingly become a ...
... 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, they.
... story to their own philosophy or lifestyle, and I began to realize that I was hearing in their excitement the power of a persistent myth. Through this myth, I came to understand, the Luddites get transformed into today's neo-Luddism ...
... story. Chapter 5 offers a practical survey of key novels about the Luddites, from Charlotte Brontë's Shirley to relatively obscure Victorian fiction, twentieth-century historical novels, and one “steampunk” fantasy novel. But I also ...
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 | |