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Reason magazine -- July 2001, Rage Against the Machines by Ron Bailey In place of a globally integrated, "corporatized" economy based on high technology, the neo-Luddites offer a vision of mandatory, small-scale, economically self-sufficient autarkies inspired by traditional and indigenous cultures. Like their forerunners, the neo-Luddites also want to break machines (sometimes literally) -- especially those that further biotechnology, nanotechnology, and computing. They draw their name and their animating spirit from the original Luddites, the infamous "machine breakers" in early 19th century England who protested the nascent Industrial Revolution by stealing into factories and smashing equipment. reason.com /0107/fe.rb.rage.shtml   (5261 words)

Basic Luddite Skillset Luddites were a group who morally and philosophically opposed and protested the industrial revolution; neo-luddites are similarly opposed to various technological advances in recent decades. To me, luddite skills fall into two categories: those things that people can do without modern technology and also those skills which tend to be passed down through generations or lend themselves to apprenticeships. This is probably the king of all luddite skills -- I would actually say it is a basic life skill, but like common sense seems to be severely lacking in our society. members.shaw.ca /triviaqueen/basic_skills.htm   (558 words)

Define Luddite - a Whatis.com definition - see also: luddism, neo-luddite Define Luddite - a Whatis.com definition - see also: luddism, neo-luddite A Luddite is a person who fears or loathes technology, especially new forms of technology that threaten existing jobs. Today, the term Luddite is reserved for a person who regards technology as causing more harm than good in society, and who behaves accordingly. whatis.techtarget.com /definition/0,,sid9_gci883880,00.html   (324 words)

Luddite Links Learn more about both the historical Luddites and the modern-day Neo-Luddites at the sites below. Luddites were factory workers in England during the late 19th century, who followed the example of their legendary hero, Nedd Ludd, in resisting the mechanization imposed upon them by the Industrial Revolution. Luddites definitely qualify as a cognitive minority, with their repudiation of the domination of technology in our culture. www.geocities.com /NapaValley/1517/ludlinks.html   (497 words)

Neo-Luddite - Annotated Biblography Page This interview is between Kevin Kelly and Kilpatrick Sale a leader of the Neo-Luddites. This article describes the lives of luddites in the digital age. It tells of how some modern luddites thre away their radios and TV's in order to make their statement. www.albany.edu /~rs7921/annbib.html   (395 words)

Luddite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In recent years, the terms Luddism and Luddite or Neo-Luddism and Neo-Luddite have become synonymous with anyone who opposes the advance of technology due to the cultural changes that are associated with it. Luddism and the Neo-Luddite Reaction by Martin Ryder, University of Colorado at Denver School of Education However, the movement can be seen as part of a rising tide of English working-class discontent in the early 19th century (see, for example, the Pentrich Rising of 1817, which was a general uprising, but led by an unemployed Nottingham stockinger, and probable ex-luddite, Jeremiah Brandreth). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Luddite   (1013 words)

Luddism:Directory,Society,Lifestyle Choices,Luddism Websites & Luddism Resources - Networking Help Directory A group of Neo-Luddites working on Linux, using a network of systems to solve problems that interest them. Essay by novelist Thomas Pynchon that discusses the history of the Luddite movement and the many ways it has resurfaced throughout the years. Luddism:Directory,Society,Lifestyle Choices,Luddism Websites & Luddism Resources - Networking Help Directory www.cerco.org /Top/Society/Lifestyle_Choices/Luddism   (115 words)

tt1 The Cult of Information.- A Neo-Luddite Treatise on High-Tech, Artificial Intelligence, and the true art of thinking; University of California Press, Berkley, Second Edition. The Culture of Narcissism - American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations; W.W. Norton and Company. webhome.idirect.com /~axisgroup/sevenvoices3.htm   (115 words)

Liberating Objectivism Instead, rock-solid Objectivism will be profitably applied everywhere through Neo-Tech business dynamics. Stanza III provides a glimpse into the future -- into the coming Neo-Tech Objectivist civilization in which all conscious beings live naturally -- live with eternal honesty, prosperity, and happiness. Moreover, they will discover that the extension of Neo-Tech into Zonpower is actually an array of metaphors integrating the most advanced knowledge of objective reality. www.neo-tech.com /objectivism   (3171 words)

Luddite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In recent years, the terms Luddism and Luddite or Neo-Luddism and Neo-Luddite have become synonymous with anyone who opposes the advance of technology due to the cultural changes that are associated with it. Luddism and the Neo-Luddite Reaction by Martin Ryder, University of Colorado at Denver School of Education However, the movement can be seen as part of a rising tide of English working-class discontent in the early 19th century (see, for example, the Pentrich Rising of 1817, which was a general uprising, but led by an unemployed Nottingham stockinger, and probable ex-luddite, Jeremiah Brandreth). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Luddism   (961 words)

Mark Dery's Pyrotechnic Insanitarium Chapter 8, "Propaganda," includes sections on "Billboard Revision" and "Correcting Forest Service Signs." The jury is still out on Earth First!, which often crosses the line from righteous ecopolitical rage to neo-Luddite knee-jerking (hence the name of the publishing company). Artfux and the breakaway group Cicada Corps of Artists are New Jersey-based agitprop collectives who snipe and stage neo-Situationist happenings. Includes brief profiles of Chris Baldwin, Joey Skaggs, the Cacophony Society, and the Billboard Liberation Front, as well as articles on hacking, DIY radio and TV, shirking work, and hit-and-run ontology-wrenching (pranks). www.levity.com /markdery/culturjam.html   (961 words)

bigEastern.com : The Ballad of Ned Ludd, Ludd's Links Here Come the Neo-Luddites by David Silver, Dept. of American Studies at the University of Maryland, gives a quick comparison of the Neo-Luddite books of 1995. You can't help but like Clifford Stoll, whose vibrance, intelligence and energy makes him stand out in any crowd. I still think a bit of moderation could be beneficial, but any real silicon junkie ought to reflect on Stoll's message. www.bigeastern.com /ludd/nl_links.htm   (536 words)

Advances in the Philosophy of Technology Among his targets are those I would identify as the jeremiadic marxist pessimism of Marcuse, the pious calvinist pessimism of Ellul, the piecemeal (but inevitably witty) new-left pessimism of Winner, the moderately luddite neo-heideggerian pessimism of Borgmann, and the romping fundamentalist luddite pessimism of Rifkin. Mitcham's central argument is that there are two overarching and competing views of the philosophy of technology that need to be reconciled, namely the philosophy of technology as articulated by engineers, and the philosophy of technology as articulated by humanists. To put the matter a bit differently, it is a philosophy of "warranted assertion" in the broadest sense in which assertions are a part of art, history, and law, as well as the technosciences. scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/SPT/v1_n3n4/Hickman.html   (536 words)

Amazon.com: Books: Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution : Lessons for the Computer Age Kirkpatrick Sale is a first rate historian, but as an analyst of history he tends to be blinded by his own so-called "Neo-Luddite" leanings. Like many neo-luddites and "left anarchists", Sale believes in small government, but his (and their) small government is not small in power; it has the power to compel decentralization and to resdistribute income. Sale, a founder of the New York Green Party and author of The Green Revolution (LJ 7/93), constructs a list of principles from the Luddites' actions and the political-economic-legal response, which he applies to our present time in the last quarter of the book. www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0201407183?v=glance   (536 words)

Luddite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In recent years, the terms Luddism and Luddite or Neo-Luddism and Neo-Luddite[1] have become synonymous with anyone who opposes the advance of technology due to the cultural changes that are associated with it. However, the movement can be seen as part of a rising tide of English working-class discontent in the early 19th century (see say the Pentrich Rising of 1817, which was a general uprising, but led by an unemployed Nottingham stockinger, and probable ex-luddite, Jeremiah Brandreth). Three Luddites ambushed a mill-owner, the luddites responsible were hanged and shortly after old style 'Luddism' died away. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Luddites   (536 words)

The Ludic Quest This Neo-Luddite movement, rather than addressing the social use of technology like the Luddites of old, seems to be an effort to create the timewarped environment of an imaginary 18th century lifestyle. Back in the dictionary; the words that follow Luddite, ludicrous and ludo appear to have their roots in the Latin word meaning to play. King Ludd was of Trojan descent, and a keen town planner. freespace.virgin.net /nigel.ayers/ludd.html   (1707 words)

The Unabomber, the Economics of Happiness, and the End of the Millennium Moreover, the Unabomber (as a Neo- Luddite) points out that modern technology will gradually replace man-made decisions with machine-made decisions because the latter are better informed and more accurate (largely because of the growing complexity of factors relevant to decisions). The Unabomber, as the media has quite clearly branded him, is a latter-day Luddite, whose central message is that industrial/technological society has a "progressive" logic of its own, much as the Hegelian dialectic drives towards the Absolute Spirit regardless of individual wills. We want to examine the Unabomber's critique of technology and not his personality or the (criminal, irrational) means he has chosen to act out this critique.[2] In particular, we will turn our attention to the social and philosophical implications of the Unabomber's writings. www.abdn.ac.uk /philosophy/endsandmeans/vol3no1/kujundzic_mann.shtml   (1707 words)

Techdirt: Don't Fear The Grey Goo It seems that now that most people have gotten over their fear of computers, the neo-Luddite movement is focusing on the next area they don't understand. Now, the people who know better are starting to speak out on why Prince Charles has nothing to fear from grey goo. There was a lot of news last week when Prince Charles talked about his fear of nanotechnology wiping out the planet by coating us in a "grey goo" of self-replicating nanobots. www.techdirt.com /articles/20030430/1219204_F.shtml   (328 words)

MediaChannel.org - PERSPECTIVES DAM! We think it will be funny to see a billboard advertising nothing for this neo-Luddite site which critiques the Internet explosion. Sue Schaffner: I went on to be a part of the Lesbian Avengers, where I was in charge of the distribution — all right, wheatpasting — of propaganda. Partly in response to Giuliani's "quality of life" dictates, there are fewer and fewer locations to wheatpaste, so our forthcoming project "Gynadome" will have a billboard component to augment the Web site. www.mediachannel.org /arts/perspectives/dam/index.shtml   (1891 words)

Reason magazine The final panel (which included your humble correspondent) dealt with how to respond to the growing neo-Luddite movement, which opposes virtually all technological advances. Such opponents were dubbed "bioconservatives" and "technophobes." Panelists identified many of the groups who oppose technological progress, including Jeremy Rifkin's Foundation on Economic Trends, the Council for Responsible Genetics, Greenpeace, the Rural Advancement Foundation International, and basically all of the 100 or so organizations that participated in the Turning Point Project. www.reason.com /rb/rb062001.html   (1891 words)

Reason: John Locke, Original Hipster: The Enlightenment roots of counterculture The book’s short and provocative answer is this: In a post-9/11 world, one in which religious and neo-Luddite fundamentalists at home and abroad seek to stymie individualism and technological advances, it’s more important than ever to understand and appreciate what might be called the countercultural imperative, whose chief characteristics are personal freedom and constant change. Sufism, he notes, offers up a compelling counterpoint within Islam to the practices of the Taliban and the Iranian republic, one that seeks intoxication and ecstasy as a means of bypassing such mind-numbingly repressive regimes. Enumerating the many moral, political, and cultural failings of dead white men such as Locke, Voltaire, and Jefferson, Goffman nonetheless argues that these figures helped create a framework that underwrote an ongoing social and scientific revolution that gives people more freedom to choose how to pursue happiness on something like their own terms. www.reason.com /0503/cr.ng.john.shtml   (666 words)

The Politics of Transhumanism In the last couple of years the neo-Luddite movement has grown in coordination and political visibility, from movements against gene-mod food, cloning and stem cells, to President Bush’s appointment of staunch bio-conservative ethicist Leon Kass as his chief bioethics advisor and chair of the President’s Council on Bioethics (PCB). Engaging in actual political campaigns to defeat anti-cloning or anti-stem cells bills would inevitably force the extropians to grapple with partisan politics and the ways in which the state actively supports science, further attenuating their anarchist purity. By embracing political engagement and the use of government to address equity, safety and efficacy concerns about transhuman technologies, transhumanists are in a better position to attract a larger, broader audience. www.changesurfer.com /Acad/TranshumPolitics.htm   (666 words)

Featuring Deus Ex: Invisible War Interview at ActionTrip Instead of countries, antagonistic organizations permeate every city -- a global trade syndicate, a unified world church, an omnipresent black-market monopolized by a race of cyborgs, a neo-Luddite secret society that wants to destroy all body-modification technology, a cabal of utopian thinkers bent on transforming society; etc.... A good example of that in Deus Ex would be that after sending the NSF signal in NY, the fastest way to escape the angry troops inside the building was to turn on your speed augmentation, put on some armor, and simply jump off the roof and hope your legs didn't break. The original Deus Ex was highly acclaimed and is one of the most intelligently executed PC titles of all time. www.actiontrip.com /previews/deusexinvisiblewar_i.phtml   (2188 words)

Roger L. Simon: Wolfowitz Derangement Syndrome I see the Wolfowitz Derangement Syndrome as a predictable outcome of a European neo-luddite strategy to tye down the US by lilli-putin means. I think the outbreak of WDS is symptomatic of a larger derangement, which makes me wonder to what extent the left is truly crazy. This W-related derangement syndrome is like the flu: if you don't really take care of yourself, it comes back with a vengeance. www.rogerlsimon.com /mt-archives/2005/03/wolfowitz_deran.php   (5612 words)

Franklin Furnace Links Players will be able to join an online chat chamber, moderated by our Neo-Luddite characters, where they can discuss such pressing questions as: What if women ruled the planet? Except that it was written with a militant cult of lesbian separatists in mind. The project will revisit a particular moment in the history of lesbian culture-the separatist, women's back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s-by situating it within the narrative structure of such classic science fiction films as "Planet of the Apes" and "Mad Max". www.franklinfurnace.org /thismonth/kitchen013101.html   (5612 words)

Asylum Street Spankers + Matt the Electrician - PopMatters Concert Review The Asylum Street Spankers don't believe in any mechanical amplification of their sound, jokingly referring to electricity as "demonism." While I never got around to asking one of them to toss me a rationale for their neo-Luddite performance demands, it wasn't hard to see the challenges and advantages of that approach. The Asylum Street Spankers are an Austin treasure that I should have checked out a long time ago. It was a promise of intimacy and pleasure premised on the unspoken handshake that people would listen quietly, turn off their cell phones, and pick up the shards of their attention span left in the mangler teeth of American culture. www.popmatters.com /music/concerts/a/asylum-street-spankers-040130.shtml   (1205 words)

Review: Beaker's Dozen by Nancy Kress Perhaps she merely intends these as cautionary tales, but there do seem to be quite a few anti-technology, neo-luddite types around these days and I suspect that Kress has some sympathy with their way of thinking. Nancy Kress is clearly someone with writing talent and short fiction seems especially suited to her abilities. Kress seems to have an exceptionally negative view of technology and its effect on our future. www.urbanophile.com /arenn/sf/reviews/beakers-dozen.html   (385 words)

3.06: Interview with the Luddite Kirkpatrick Sale is a leader of the Neo-Luddites. Sale: I do, in the sense that we modern-day Luddites are not, or at least not yet, taking up the sledgehammer and the torch and gun to resist the new machinery, but rather taking up the book and the lecture and organizing people to raise these issues. Sale: Well, I have spent the last 20 years looking into these problems, and I have suggested to my daughters, who are in their 20s, that it would be a mistake to have children. www.wired.com /wired/archive/3.06/saleskelly_pr.html   (385 words)

Technology For The Coming Millennium Kirkpatrick Sale, author and social commentator, has recently received much attention as a Neo-Luddite critic of technology and modern society. To better understand Kirkpatrick Sale's view of progress and modern society, the relationships between technology and social communities, and the prospects for the future, I traveled to Cold Springs, New York to meet with Sale where he lives and works – without a cellular phone, fax machine, computer, or dedicated line to the Information Superhighway. Sale points out, for example, that in 1806 there were 5,000 croppers and apprentices at work in Yorkshire. www.fraw.org.uk /library/003/neoluddite/sale_robin.html   (385 words)

Nerve Endings Firing Away: August 2003 I have mostly been on the other side of the Neo-Luddite movement but this particular symbolism of technology simply irritates me. I admit to the numerous life-saving utilities of the teeny contraption in the worst-case scenarios of Bombay life. Cultural policing and moral dictatorship of a crazed incestuous geriatric king-maker in the most cosmopolitian city of the sub-continent and tolerance of his antics, elevating him to almost demi-god status. Maybe the irritation can be traced down to my inherent hatred for the telephone as I have never been a person who hogs the A.G.Bell’s air waves. patrix.typepad.com /nerves/2003/08   (10316 words)

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