But CBI North director Steve Rankin said: "This almost smacks of the
Luddism of the 19th Century.
Shutting down P2Ps amounts to
Luddism, (185) and allowing them to go unchecked is anarchic.
Even if their own experiences with technology in the classroom have been frustrating, disappointing, or disastrous, teachers tend to employ a Pogo-esque analysis: Their own inadequacy, lack of proficiency, or even incipient
Luddism is the problem (Goodson & Mangan, 1996).
And I know science fiction." In searching for past or existing examples of the ethic he wishes to promote, McKibben unfortunately invites further accusations of
Luddism. Fifteenth-century Chinese rejection of large sailing ships, sixteenth-century Japanese rejection of guns in favor of samurai swords and the contemporary Amish rejection of phones in their homes are instances he offers.
The latest work on
Luddism, as both broadly and narrowly defined, reveals a similarly complex story.
Luddism gradually spread to Nottingham, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Leicestershire and Derbyshire.
Asserting that the author refuses to "'plot' history" (106) in the classic realist manner, she is forced to try to find a rather tortured coherence for it in the representation of female domestic servants' "hidden work" and
Luddism's "invisible power" (109)--while yet admitting the novel's middle-class bias and glossing over its patronizing treatment of those servants.
Although
Luddism in its early days was about jobs, today it is largely about other things.
It is easy to dismiss the "re-localization" movement, as it sometimes calls itself, as one part
Luddism, one part economic isolationism, with a dash of survivalism thrown in for good measure.
The low esteem in which many of my colleagues hold electronic publication derives in part from these failed ventures, not just the
Luddism usually blamed.
Yet while it has not yet attracted the attention of the media (inured to good news and preferring to celebrate globalization uncritically and treat resistance to it as
Luddism or worse), the new millennium has in fact brought new efforts at overcoming the global imbalance.
My
Luddism takes numerous forms, all of them harmless enough, some of them a source of merriment to my friends: I am hopelessly unadventurous with my computer, for example, and, though I do not use it, I am reluctant to throw away my electronic typewriter--just in case of, well, I don't know, in case of some huge, unimaginable, armageddonesque cyber-melt-down of some sort.