LEADER 04383nam 22006494a 450 001 9910963910303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9781597268332 010 $a159726833X 010 $a9781417594221 010 $a1417594225 035 $a(CKB)1000000000032169 035 $a(OCoLC)217471431 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10079994 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000100153 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11124703 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000100153 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10019814 035 $a(PQKB)10279481 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3317360 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10079994 035 $a(OCoLC)923186883 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3317360 035 $a(Perlego)2985058 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000032169 100 $a20020625d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAgainst the machine $ethe hidden Luddite tradition in literature, art, and individual lives /$fNicols Fox 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aWashington, DC $cIsland Press/Shearwater Books$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (425 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9781559638609 311 08$a1559638605 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntro -- 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. 330 $a"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 our 330 8 $afuture.". 606 $aTechnology$xSocial aspects 606 $aTechnology and civilization 606 $aLuddites 615 0$aTechnology$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aTechnology and civilization. 615 0$aLuddites. 676 $a303.48/3 700 $aFox$b Nicols$01804012 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910963910303321 996 $aAgainst the machine$94351850 997 $aUNINA