‘Rebels Against the Future’ – A Book in Five Minutes No.9
Channel: ramblinactivist
Date: 2022-03-16

Ramblinactivist 2022/9, 16th March 2022:

In the late 1990s, on the back of the rising and soon-to-burst dot-com bubble, the media often featured Kirkpatrick Sale. His 1995 book, ‘Rebels Against the Future’, presents a detailed history of the Luddite movement, and what that historic movement represents to our ‘modern’ society today.

What the book presents as ‘the future’ of Luddism is as a critical force: Providing direct opposition where necessary; and more importantly, preparing for the inevitable ecological collapse of the technological-enabled economy; and keeping alive an ecologically-centric, less-complex view of human organisation for future generations to fall-back upon.

This is the first episode in a techo-critical trilogy, covering three books which I see as closely related in what they have to say, but offering radically different perspectives on that central issue: ‘Technological Society’. Part 2 & 3 to follow next.

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