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ISBN 10: 0415978688

ISBN 13: 9780415978682

Author: Steven E. Jones

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.

Against Technology From the Luddites to Neo Luddism 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1 The Boom, the Bust, and Neo-Luddites in the 1990s

The 1990s Moment of Neo-Luddism

Ned Ludd and the Anti-Globalization Movement

Green Ludd

Antiglobalization, Antitechnology

Ned Ludd vs. Bill Gates

Bill Joy’s Epiphany

I’m Not a Luddite, but …

Chapter 2 The Mythic History of The Original Luddites

The Original Luddites

The Code of Silence

Luddism As a Subculture

In the Name of Ned Ludd

Luddism and Carnival

Ned Ludd vs. Robin Hood

Romantic Robin Hood, Romantic Ned Ludd

The Romantic Siege of Rawfolds Mill

The Dumb Steeple at the Crossroads (of Folklore and History)

Chapter 3 Romanticizing the Luddites

Blake’s Dark Satanic Mills

Wordsworth’s Nature

Keats’s Romantic Nature

Byron’s Outlaw Hero

Chapter 4 Frankenstein and the Monster of Technology

The Shelley Circle and the Luddites

The Shelley Circle and the Ideal of Scientific Progress

Neo-Luddites Reading Frankenstein

Monstrous Science, Mad Scientist

An Allegory of Luddism?

An Allegory of Technology?

Frankenstein Meets the Movies

Mainframe Monster in Desk Set

A Golem in the Underground City of Metropolis

The Monster of Autonomous Technology

Simulacra in the Matrix

Automaton vs. Robot

Chapter 5 Novelizing the Luddites

The Form of the Novel

The Romance of Rawfolds Mill

Shirley

The Risings of the Luddites

The Making of the English Working Class

Scarlea Grange or, a Luddite’s Daughter

Through the Fray: a Tale of the Luddite Riots

Ben O’Bill’s: the Luddite

The Rape of the Rose

Inheritance

The Difference Engine

Coda: Novelizing History and Legend

Chapter 6 Counterculture and Countercomputer in the 1960s

Counterculture Against the Machine

The Appropriate-Technology Subculture

The Two (Counter)cultures

Machines of Loving Grace

Mimeograph Machines of Loving Grace

Counterculture to Hacker Subculture

Ted Nelson’s Computer Lib

Stewart Brand’s Alternative Technology

Counterculture and Countercomputer

Edward Abbey’s Eco-Luddism

Technology Is Sublime

Thomas Pynchon’s Neo-Luddite Paranoia

Chapter 7 Ned Ludd in the Age of Terror

Ca. 1990

Ca. 2002

Defending Ted, Invoking Ned

Remember York, the Florence Manifesto

It Must Be Abstract

It Must Be Destroyed

Neo-Luddism and Anticapitalism

Ned Ludd Lives (Sort of)

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