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OverviewExamines contemporary resistance to technology and places it in a surprising historical context. She brilliantly illuminates the rich but oftentimes unrecognised 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nicols FoxPublisher: Island Press Imprint: Shearwater Books,US Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.553kg ISBN: 9781559637190ISBN 10: 1559637196 Pages: 424 Publication Date: 01 October 2004 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsAgainst the Machine is timely, compelling, and important. Its intellectual sweep extends from the transcendental to the transistor, covering much unfamiliar ground and reviving a long-neglected tradition of dissent. --Eric Schlosser Author of Fast Food Nation Against the Machine is luminous, lyrical, impassioned, profound. I had to put the book down every few paragraphs and breathe in relief. --Orion [Fox] carefully and convincingly makes her case that there have always been reasonable, indeed often brilliant, people who were not at all sure that technology was solving more problems than it created. --Harper's Magazine [Fox] carefully and convincingly makes her case that there have always been reasonable, indeed often brilliant, people who were not at all sure that technology was solving more problems than it created. [Fox] carefully and convincingly makes her case that there have always been reasonable, indeed often brilliant, people who were not at all sure that technology was solving more problems than it created. -- Harper's Magazine Against the Machine is timely, compelling, and important. Its intellectual sweep extends from the transcendental to the transistor, covering much unfamiliar ground and reviving a long-neglected tradition of dissent. --Eric Schlosser Author of Fast Food Nation Against the Machine is luminous, lyrical, impassioned, profound. I had to put the book down every few paragraphs and breathe in relief. -- Orion Author InformationNicols Fox, an independent journalist for more than twenty years, has written on subjects ranging from emerging pathogens to the nature of laughter. She is author of Spoiled: Why Our Food is Making Us Sick (Basic Books, 1997), It Was Probably Something You Are (Penguin, 1999) and Alone Together (Pond Press, 2002). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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