Industry and Desire: Forging New Bonds
Victorian scholarship has long subscribed to a form of technophobia adopted from the Tory critiques of industry, principally by John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle, and subsequently taken up by the Marxian critical tradition. By opposing the machine to the organic and the mechanical to the vital, this a...
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Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens
2018
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| Online dostop: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Izvleček: | Victorian scholarship has long subscribed to a form of technophobia adopted from the Tory critiques of industry, principally by John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle, and subsequently taken up by the Marxian critical tradition. By opposing the machine to the organic and the mechanical to the vital, this anti-industrial stance pleaded for the return to a pastoral, artisanal culture often linked with an idealised recreation of the Middle-Ages. In recent years, as the computer dissolved the boundary b... |
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