| John Armitage on Wed, 11 Jul 2001 16:14:02 +0200 (CEST) |
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| [Nettime-bold] Where have all the Luddites gone? |
Hi folks Following on Sean's bibliography, how about two cheers at least for the Luddite tendency, somehow lost in the flood of the 1980s?: Frank Webster and Kevin Robins' (1986) Information Technology: A Luddite Analysis. Ablex, New York. Theodore Rozak's (1986) The Cult of Information: The Folklore of Computers and the True Art of Thinking. Cambridge. Lutterworth. David Noble's (1984) Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation. Three classics of Luddism in my book. Kirkpatrick Sale (1995) made an heroic effort to get the Luddite view heard above the clamour in the mid 90s with his Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and their War on the Industrial revolution- Lessons for the Computer Age. Addison. Since then, not much, unless others know different? Best John ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ John Armitage Head of Multidisciplinary Studies School of Social, Political, Economic and Social Sciences University of Northumbria Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 8ST, UK. Tel: 0191 227 4971 Fax: 0191 227 4654 E-mail: (w) [email protected] (h) [email protected] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold