[D66] Notes towards a Neo-Luddite manifesto

[R.O.]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chellis_Glendinning

On 30-07-2020 08:07, R.O. wrote:
> https://libarynth.org/notes_on_the_luddites
> 
> 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:
> 
>      “Neo-Luddites are not anti-technology:” Glendinning proposes that 
> Neo-Luddites are only against specific kinds of technology which are 
> destructive to communities or are materialistic and rationalistic.
> 
>      “All technologies are political:” Technologies are not neutral but 
> have been created in specific social contexts for specific interests. 
> Mass technological society has created technologies to perpetuate its 
> specific values (short-term efficiency, ease of production and 
> marketing, profit) and this has led to rigid social institutions.
> 
>      “The personal view of technology is dangerously limited:” Instead 
> of focusing on how technology will improve the life of an individual, 
> critics need to look at the wider social, economic and ecological 
> implications of technological systems.
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