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A LUDDITE READING LIST


The Luddites were early-nineteenth-century English "weavers and combers and dressers of wool" and "artisans in the cotton trades" who feared, quite rightly, that their village culture and economy were collapsing with the rise of factories and steam-powered machines that made their human skills obsolete. They gathered at night with faces blackened by coal soot and raided the mills with hatchets and hammers, mauls and pikes, pistols and muskets. Inspired by a mythical King Ned Ludd, the pseudonym used in their public letters, their campaign spread and broke like a fever across northern England from November 1811 to January 1813.



Neil Postman

  • Amusing Ourselves to Death



    • Kirkpatrick Sale

  • Rebels Against the Future: The Luddites and Their War on the Industrial Revolution: Lessons for the Machine Age (Addison-Wesley)



    Bill McKibben

  • The End of Nature



    Jerry Mander

  • Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television
  • In the Absence of the Sacred



    Jacques Ellul



    Chellis Glendinning
    psychologist, pioneered the field of eco-psychology

  • When Technology Wounds: The Human Consequences of Progress
  • My Name is Chellis & I'm in Recovery from Western Civilization



    Robert Kaplan

  • The Coming Anarchy



    Arne Naess



    Ted Kaczinski



    John Berger



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