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	October 18, 2000: The Journal of the American Medical Association publishes Dr. Shetal Shah’s medical ethics conundrum about an elderly Native American man who announced he was going to wander off into the arctic to die according to custom. The journal was later forced to admit that “the events described in his story never happened.” (See News Trolls for more of this sort of thing)