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| notes_on_the_luddites [2014-04-09 12:26] – [Notes On The Luddites] maja | notes_on_the_luddites [2014-04-09 12:53] – maja |
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| http://paulkingsnorth.net/journalism/dark-ecology/ | http://paulkingsnorth.net/journalism/dark-ecology/ |
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| | More from Paul Kingsnorth: "I would suggest that 'anti-globalisation' is simply a continuation of the Luddites' struggle, and I touched on this in my book on the movement (One No, Many Yeses) years ago. Same shit, different century, as it were." |
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| | "We see this all the time: one man’s freedom is another’s industry run amok" |
| | http://illusionofmore.com/on-being-a-luddite/ |
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| <blockquote>modern Neo-Luddites are more likely to "confine their resistance...to a kind of intellectual and political resistance." The manifesto of the 'Second Luddite Congress' specifically rejects violent action (...) Neo-Luddites are generally opposed to anthropocentrism, globalization and industrial capitalism. (...) Neo-Luddites also believe that current technologies are a threat to humanity and to the natural world in general, and that a future societal collapse is possible. | <blockquote>modern Neo-Luddites are more likely to "confine their resistance...to a kind of intellectual and political resistance." The manifesto of the 'Second Luddite Congress' specifically rejects violent action (...) Neo-Luddites are generally opposed to anthropocentrism, globalization and industrial capitalism. (...) Neo-Luddites also believe that current technologies are a threat to humanity and to the natural world in general, and that a future societal collapse is possible. |
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| <blockquote> ... Simple living may be characterized by individuals being satisfied with what they need rather than want... </blockquote> | <blockquote> ... Simple living may be characterized by individuals being satisfied with what they need rather than want... </blockquote> |
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| | <blockquote>Much misunderstood, the Luddites weren't Primitivists, but opposed machinery 'harmful to commonality'. Their view that technology is never neutral is very resonant today. However for activists they also pose the troubling question of when tactics become self defeating. The people of Britain in 1812 had the choice of supporting injustice or anarchy, and they chose injustice." </blockquote> |
| | http://uncivilisation.ning.com/forum/topics/200-years-of-the-luddites |
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| <blockquote> In 1990, Chellis Glendinning published her "Notes towards a Neo-Luddite manifesto" in the Utne Reader, reclaiming the term 'luddite'. According to Glendinning, Neo-Luddites are "20th century citizens — activists, workers, neighbors, social critics, and scholars — who question the predominant modern worldview, which preaches that unbridled technology represents progress."[15] Glendinning then gives the following principles of Neo-Luddism: | <blockquote> In 1990, Chellis Glendinning published her "Notes towards a Neo-Luddite manifesto" in the Utne Reader, reclaiming the term 'luddite'. According to Glendinning, Neo-Luddites are "20th century citizens — activists, workers, neighbors, social critics, and scholars — who question the predominant modern worldview, which preaches that unbridled technology represents progress."[15] Glendinning then gives the following principles of Neo-Luddism: |
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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden |
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