LEADER 04081nam 22006015 450 001 9910793840103321 005 20200406050111.0 010 $a1-5017-4677-4 010 $a1-5017-4656-1 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501746567 035 $a(CKB)4100000009835559 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5964903 035 $a(OCoLC)1099543299 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse78621 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0002252095 035 $a(DE-B1597)527070 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501746567 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009835559 100 $a20200406h20192019 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDismantlings $eWords against Machines in the American Long Seventies /$fMatt Tierney 210 1$aIthaca, NY : $cCornell University Press, $d[2019] 210 4$dİ2019 215 $a1 online resource (233 pages) 225 1 $aCornell scholarship online 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2019. 311 $a1-5017-4641-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction: For the Sake of Survival -- $t1. Luddism -- $t2. Communion -- $t3. Cyberculture -- $t4. Distortion -- $t5. Revolutionary Suicide -- $t6. Liberation Technology -- $t7. Thanatopography -- $tConclusion: American Carnage and Technologies of Tomorrow -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tPermissions -- $tIndex 330 $a"For the master's tools," the poet Audre Lorde wrote, "will never dismantle the master's house." Dismantlings is a study of literary, political, and philosophical critiques of the utopian claims about technology in the Long Seventies, the decade and a half before 1980. Following Alice Hilton's 1963 admonition that the coming years would bring humanity to a crossroads-"machines for HUMAN BEINGS or human beings for THE MACHINE"-Matt Tierney explores wide-ranging ideas from science fiction, avant-garde literatures, feminist and anti-racist activism, and indigenous eco-philosophy that may yet challenge machines of war, control, and oppression.Dismantlings opposes the language of technological idealism with radical thought of the Long Seventies, from Lorde and Hilton to Samuel R. Delany and Ursula K. Le Guin to Huey P. Newton, John Mohawk, and many others. This counter-lexicon retrieves seven terms for the contemporary critique of technology: Luddism, a verbal and material combat against exploitative machines;communion, a kind of togetherness that stands apart from communication networks; cyberculture, a historical conjunction of automation with racist and militarist machines; distortion, a transformative mode of reading and writing; revolutionary suicide, a willful submission to the risk of political engagement; liberation technology, a synthesis of appropriate technology and liberation theology; and thanatopography, a mapping of planetary technological ethics after Auschwitz and Hiroshima. Dismantlings restores revolutionary language of the radical Long Seventies for reuse in the digital present against emergent technologies of exploitation, subjugation, and death. 410 0$aCornell scholarship online. 606 $aTechnology$xSocial aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aRadicalism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAmerican literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aTechnology in literature 607 $aUnited States$xCivilization$y1970- 610 $aLiterature, Technology, Activism, Luddism, Cyberculture. 615 0$aTechnology$xSocial aspects$xHistory 615 0$aRadicalism$xHistory 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aTechnology in literature. 676 $a973.92 700 $aTierney$b Matt, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01487761 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910793840103321 996 $aDismantlings$93707745 997 $aUNINA