04383nam 22006494a 450 991096391030332120200520144314.09781597268332159726833X97814175942211417594225(CKB)1000000000032169(OCoLC)217471431(CaPaEBR)ebrary10079994(SSID)ssj0000100153(PQKBManifestationID)11124703(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000100153(PQKBWorkID)10019814(PQKB)10279481(Au-PeEL)EBL3317360(CaPaEBR)ebr10079994(OCoLC)923186883(MiAaPQ)EBC3317360(Perlego)2985058(EXLCZ)99100000000003216920020625d2002 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAgainst the machine the hidden Luddite tradition in literature, art, and individual lives /Nicols Fox1st ed.Washington, DC Island Press/Shearwater Books20021 online resource (425 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9781559638609 1559638605 Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Prologue -- Ch 1: The Kellams and their Island -- Ch 2: The Frame Breakers -- Ch 3: Romantics Inclinations -- Ch 4: The Mechanized Hand -- Ch 5: Golden bees, Plain Cottages, and Apple Trees -- Ch 6: Signs of Life -- Ch 7: The Nature of Dissent -- Ch 8: Going to Ground -- Ch 9: Writing Against the Machine -- Ch 10: The clockwork God -- Ch 11: Looking for Luddites -- Notes -- prologue -- chapter 1 -- chapter 2 -- chapter 3 -- chapter 4 -- chapter 5 -- chapter 6 -- chapter 7 -- chapter 8 -- chapter 9 -- chapter 20 -- chapter 11 -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- About the author."From the cars we drive to the instant messages we receive, from debate about genetically modified foods to astonishing strides in cloning, robotics, and nanotechnology, it would be hard to deny technology's powerful grip on our lives. To stop and ask whether this digitized, implanted reality is quite what we had in mind when we opted for progress, or to ask if we might not be creating more problems than we solve, is likely to peg us as hopelessly backward or suspiciously eccentric. Yet not only questioning, but challenging technology turns out to have a long and noble history.In this timely and incisive work, Nicols Fox examines contemporary resistance to technology and places it in a surprising historical context. She brilliantly illuminates the rich but oftentimes unrecognized literary and philosophical tradition that has existed for nearly two centuries, since the first Luddites--the """"machine breaking"""" followers of the mythical Ned Ludd--lifted their sledgehammers in protest against the Industrial Revolution. Tracing that current of thought through some of the great minds of the 19th and 20th centuries--William Blake, Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, John Ruskin, William Morris, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Graves, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and many others--Fox demonstrates that modern protests against consumptive lifestyles and misgivings about the relentless march of mechanization are part of a fascinating hidden history. She shows as well that the Luddite tradition can yield important insights into how we might reshape both technology and modern life so that human, community, and environmental values take precedence over the demands of the machine.In Against the Machine, Nicols Fox writes with compelling immediacy--bringing a new dimension and depth to the debate over what technology means, both now and for ourfuture.".TechnologySocial aspectsTechnology and civilizationLudditesTechnologySocial aspects.Technology and civilization.Luddites.303.48/3Fox Nicols1804012MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910963910303321Against the machine4351850UNINA