Luddites, without Condescension (Fri, 6th May, free conference at Birkbeck).
Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities "Luddies, without Condescension" A Conference on the 200th Anniversary of the Frame-breakers’ Uprising Friday 6th May 10am - 6pm Room B34, Birkbeck Main Building Bloomsbury, London This event is free and open to all A one-day conference to mark the 200th anniversary of the uprising of the handloom weavers in 1811 in the dawn of the industrial revolution under the command of the mythic General Ludd. Even though the movement was sparked by skilled artisans, “luddite” has ever since been a byword for technophobes facing backwards and mindless rejection of progress. The conference will gather historians of luddism and others interested in what in 1800 was called “the machinery question”, to consider not only the historical luddites, urban and rural, but also contemporary movements of direct resistance, north and south, to capitalist modernization. The concluding session will address the issue of modernity itself, its model of temporality and the assumption that history is future-directed. Full PDF programme for this is up at: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/bih/news/luddites _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
