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

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

On This Day in Snigglery	December 3, 2004: The Yes Men infiltrate a fake spokesman for DOW Chemicals onto BBC World Television to formally apologize for the Bhopal disaster. (See Guerrilla Hacks for more info)