On-line Luddism Index

Bill Joy’s “Why the future doesn’t need us”

• Why the future doesn’t need us by Bill Joy
• Salon interview with Bill Joy
• Will Spiritual Robots Replace Humanity by 2100? (Stanford Symposium)

Luddism

• Luddites and Luddism: History, Texts, Interpretation
• Primitivism
• The Ludic Quest
• The Primitivist Critique of Civilization by Richard Heinberg
• A Primitivist Primer by John Moore
• Coalition Against Civilization
• Is It O.K. to be a Luddite? by Thomas Pynchon New York Times Book Review 28 Oct. 1984
• “I’m not a Luddite, but…” by Philip J. Davis SIAM News March 1996
• Even Luddites Have Web Sites by Kitty Williams
• Society Against the State by Pierre Clastres
• The Luddite Theory
• The Neo-Luddite Manifesto from Albert F. Davenport

Miscellany

• Social Criticism Review
• The Uses of the Primitive by Stanley Diamond
• The Original Affluent Society by Marshall Sahlins
• Health and the Rise of Civilization by Mark Nathan Cohen (excerpt)
• An Open Letter on Technology and Mediation by Ron Leighton, et al.

Chellis Glendinning & Ecopsychology

• Technology, Trauma, and The Wild by Chellis Glendinnng
• An Open Letter to Enviros by Chellis Glendinnng

Kirkpatrick Sale

• An Overview of Decentralism by Kirkpatrick Sale
• Lessons from the Luddites 5 June 1995 The Nation by Kirkpatrick Sale
• Unabomber’s Secret Treatise: Is there method in his madness? by Kirkpatrick Sale
• Interview with Kirkpatrick Sale
• Five Facets of a Myth by Kirkpatrick Sale
• The Imposition of Technology by Kirkpatrick Sale (excerpt from Rebels Against the Future)

The Unabomber

• Ship of Fools by Ted Kaczynski
• Ship of Fools (stage adaptation)
• HotWired: Unabomber Online
• Interview with Ted Kaczynski

Fredy Perlman

• The Reproduction of Daily Life by Fredy Perlman
• Against His-story, Against Leviathan (excerpt) by Fredy Perlman

John Zerzan

• The Mass Psychology of Misery by John Zerzan (part 2)
• Technology by John Zerzan
• Culture by John Zerzan
• Feral by John Zerzan
• Community by John Zerzan
• Division of Labor by John Zerzan
• Progress by John Zerzan
• Society by John Zerzan
• Tonality and Totality by John Zerzan
• The Case Against Art by John Zerzan
• Language: Origin and Meaning by John Zerzan
• Number: Its Origin and Evolution by John Zerzan
• Future Primitive by John Zerzan
• On the Transition: Postscript to Future Primitive by John Zerzan
• Running on Emptiness: The Failure of Symbolic Thought by John Zerzan
• Time and its Discontents by John Zerzan
• Age of Grief by John Zerzan
• Youth and Regression in an Infantile Society by John Zerzan
• Interview with John Zerzan
• The Imperialism of Everyday Life by John Zerzan

Langdon Winner

• Cyberlibertarian Myths and the Prospects for Community by Langdon Winner
• The Handwriting on the Wall: Resisting Technoglobalism’s Assault on Education by Langdon Winner
• Computers and Hope in an Urban Ark by Langdon Winner
• How Technomania is Overtaking the Millennium by Langdon Winner
• Who will we be in cyberspace? by Langdon Winner
• Meet the Inventor! (Interview with L.C. Winner, C.E.O. of EDU-SHAM, Inc.)
• Building the Basics (interview with Langdon Winner)
• The Real Millennium Bug by Langdon Winner

Jacques Ellul

• Review: The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul by David S. Gallinat
• Excerpt from The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul

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On This Day in Snigglery	February 4, 2002: Two Australian TV news shows fall for a hoax about gangs of unemployed activists living in the sewers, organizing on-line, scavenging for food and manipulating the welfare system. (See News Hoaxes for more info on this prank)