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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501746567
035 _a(DE-B1597)527070
035 _a(OCoLC)1099543299
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
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050 4 _aE169.12
_b.T557 2020
072 7 _aLIT004020
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082 0 4 _a973.92
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aTierney, Matt
_eautore
245 1 0 _aDismantlings :
_bWords against Machines in the American Long Seventies /
_cMatt Tierney.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2019]
264 4 _c©2019
300 _a1 online resource (232 p.)
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction: For the Sake of Survival --
_t1. Luddism --
_t2. Communion --
_t3. Cyberculture --
_t4. Distortion --
_t5. Revolutionary Suicide --
_t6. Liberation Technology --
_t7. Thanatopography --
_tConclusion: American Carnage and Technologies of Tomorrow --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tNotes --
_tWorks Cited --
_tPermissions --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _a"For the master's tools," the poet Audre Lorde wrote, "will never dismantle the master's house." Dismantlings is a study of literary, political, and philosophical critiques of the utopian claims about technology in the Long Seventies, the decade and a half before 1980. Following Alice Hilton's 1963 admonition that the coming years would bring humanity to a crossroads—"machines for HUMAN BEINGS or human beings for THE MACHINE"—Matt Tierney explores wide-ranging ideas from science fiction, avant-garde literatures, feminist and anti-racist activism, and indigenous eco-philosophy that may yet challenge machines of war, control, and oppression.Dismantlings opposes the language of technological idealism with radical thought of the Long Seventies, from Lorde and Hilton to Samuel R. Delany and Ursula K. Le Guin to Huey P. Newton, John Mohawk, and many others. This counter-lexicon retrieves seven terms for the contemporary critique of technology: Luddism, a verbal and material combat against exploitative machines; communion, a kind of togetherness that stands apart from communication networks; cyberculture, a historical conjunction of automation with racist and militarist machines; distortion, a transformative mode of reading and writing; revolutionary suicide, a willful submission to the risk of political engagement; liberation technology, a synthesis of appropriate technology and liberation theology; and thanatopography, a mapping of planetary technological ethics after Auschwitz and Hiroshima. Dismantlings restores revolutionary language of the radical Long Seventies for reuse in the digital present against emergent technologies of exploitation, subjugation, and death.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aAmerican literature
_y20th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aRadicalism
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aTechnology in literature.
650 0 _aTechnology
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 4 _aAmerican Studies.
650 4 _aHistory Of Technology.
650 4 _aLiterary Studies.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / American / General.
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653 _aCyberculture.
653 _aLiterature, Technology, Activism, Luddism.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781501746567?locatt=mode:legacy
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501746567
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