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Luddites

As part of my research at CSNI I've been thinking a lot about the Luddites. Here are some links to Ludd related projects on this website and a reading list of all things Ludd.

• Ludd Walk (8/3/23)

Really good starting points:

• McQuillan, Dan. Resisting AI. Bristol University Press, 2022.
• This Machine Kills podcast (Sadowski, Jathan, Edward Ongweso, and Jereme Brown)[always Luddite - but e120 a good jumping in point]
• Binfield, Keven. Writings of the Luddites, 2004.
• Pynchon, Thomas. ‘Is It O.K. To Be A Luddite?’ Accessed 20 February 2022. https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-luddite.html?
• Tierney, Matt. Dismantlings. Cornell University Press, 2019.

• Linebaugh, Peter, Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance
• Luddite Bicentenaryexcellent blog of collected resources.
• Mueller, Gavin. Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Were Right about Why You Hate Your Job. Verso, 2021.
• Thompson, E. P. The Making of the English Working Class, 1980.

Ludd-adjacent

• Flynn, Elizabeth Gurley. ‘SABOTAGE, THE CONSCIOUS WITHDRAWAL OF THE WORKERS’ INDUSTRIAL EFFICIENCY’. Accessed 12 April 2022. https://archive.iww.org/history/library/Flynn/Sabotage/.
• Franklin, Ursula M. The Real World of Technology. Rev. ed. CBC Massey Lectures Series. Toronto, Ont. : Berkeley, CA: House of Anansi Press ; Distributed in the United States by Publishers Group West, 2004.
• Lorde, Audre. The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House. Penguin, 2017.
• ‘Reclaiming Digital Infrastructures - Constant’. Accessed 28 March 2022. https://constantvzw.org/site/-Reclaiming-Digital-Infrastructures,232-.html.
• Winner, Langdon. Autonomous Technology Technics-out-of-Control as a Theme in Political Thought. MIT Press, 1978.

While you decide.

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~gg 02/23

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