[Nettime-bold] Where have all the Luddites gone?

[John Armitage <john.armitage@unn.ac.uk>]

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
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