Against Technology (eBook)

From the Luddites to Neo-Luddism

Steven E. Jones (Autor)

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2013
288 Seiten
Taylor and Francis (Verlag)
978-1-135-52239-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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 "e;Ned Ludd"e; 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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.1.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Optik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 1-135-52239-1 / 1135522391
• ISBN-13: 978-1-135-52239-1 / 9781135522391