| Against the Machine: The Hidden Luddite Tradition in Literature, Art, and Individual Lives |  | Author: Nicols Fox
Publisher: Island Press
Category: Book
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Edition: 1
Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 1559638605
Dewey Decimal Number: 303.483
EAN: 9781559638609
ASIN: 1559638605
Publication Date: October 1, 2002
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In this work, Nicols Fox examines contemporary resistance to technology and places it in a surprising historical context. She 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 thought through some of the greatest 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, 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 demand of the machine.
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