The Idler
31st December 2013, 11:13
The Luddites explained here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddites
From http://ludditebicentenary.blogspot.co.uk/p/events.html
Thursday 16th January 2014:
Luddite Memorial Lecture - Dr Matthew Roberts (http://sheffieldhallam.academia.edu/MatthewRoberts)
The first annual Luddite Memorial Lecture - dedicated to the late Lesley Kipling, a local historian - is to be given at Huddersfield University by Dr Matthew Roberts of Sheffield Hallam University. It is entitled 'Luddism Through the Chartist Looking Glass: Shirley & the Modernisation of Popular Protest'. Your RSVP is requested to [email protected]
FREE. Canalside East (CEG/28), Firth Street, Huddersfield, HD1 3BZ. 7.30 p.m.
Wednesday 26th February 2014:
Nottingham and the Pentrich Revolution - Michael Clark
This is a talk for Wollaton Historical & Conservation Society (http://www.spanglefish.com/WollatonHistorical/index.asp?pageid=322132).
FREE to members, £2 to visitors. St Leonard’s Community Centre, Bramcote Lane, Wollaton, NG8 2ND. 7.30 p.m.
Saturday 12th April 2014:
Luddite Martyrs Weekend - Luddite Bicentenary/Huddersfield Anarchist League
In what we hope will be an annual event, you are invited to commemorate the Luddite Martyrs who gave their lives over 200 years ago so that working-class people could envisage a different version of 'progress' than that imposed by the government and manufacturers and upheld by their inheritors ever since. 202 years after the failed Luddite attack on Rawfolds Mill, we invite admirers of the Luddites and those who carry their torch today to gather at the site of the new memorial to them in Liversedge. At this stage, our plans are limited to the gathering here and a drink in the Shears public house further up the road on the day itself, but it is likely we will also organise a walk along the route the Luddites took to Rawfolds on the evening of 11th April 1812 on the same weekend, if not the day itself. Possible other events on the Friday or Saturday evening could include a film show & talk and an evening of music and poetry.
FREE Liversedge Sparrow Park (junction of Knowler Hill & Halifax Road/A649 (http://g.co/maps/3e4yp)), Liversedge. Starting at approximately 12.00 p.m. facebook event (https://www.facebook.com/events/510996192295632/)
Friday 2nd May to Monday 5th May:
Breaking the Frame: A Gathering on the Politics of Technology - Luddites200 (http://www.luddites200.org.uk/index.html)
Our system of industrial capitalism is in both economic and environmental crisis. Part of the cause of these crises is the technologies that we use – although they do of course bring benefits, technologies are largely designed and controlled by corporate, military and technocratic elites to serve their interests and exert their power. So, in order to really face up to those crises we need a new politics of technology, a politics that goes beyond the myths that technology is just a neutral tool or that technological advances necessarily bring progress. The Breaking the Frame gathering is a step towards creating that new politics. We will be bringing together campaigns on the technology politics of food, energy/climate/ environment, work/economics/austerity, the military, the internet, surveillance health and gender, as well as trade unionists, radical scientists, artists and developers of alternative technologies. The aim is to learn from each other and to build a new network, to strengthen campaigns and make issues about technology more central in radical movements. Some of the issues we’ll discuss include:
- What does a critical politics of technology mean in the 21st century: democratic control or ‘low technology’?
- History of industrial society and environmental crisis; challenging the concept of progress through technology
- Experiences in different campaigns and struggles
- Alternative visions of social and technological development, and the transition to a sustainable and socially just society.
There will be demonstrations and workshops on craft-based production, poetry, music, walking etc. If you are interested in the gathering please email [email protected] The gathering will take place near Sheffield. FURTHER DETAILS TBA
From http://ludditebicentenary.blogspot.co.uk/p/events.html
Thursday 16th January 2014:
Luddite Memorial Lecture - Dr Matthew Roberts (http://sheffieldhallam.academia.edu/MatthewRoberts)
The first annual Luddite Memorial Lecture - dedicated to the late Lesley Kipling, a local historian - is to be given at Huddersfield University by Dr Matthew Roberts of Sheffield Hallam University. It is entitled 'Luddism Through the Chartist Looking Glass: Shirley & the Modernisation of Popular Protest'. Your RSVP is requested to [email protected]
FREE. Canalside East (CEG/28), Firth Street, Huddersfield, HD1 3BZ. 7.30 p.m.
Wednesday 26th February 2014:
Nottingham and the Pentrich Revolution - Michael Clark
This is a talk for Wollaton Historical & Conservation Society (http://www.spanglefish.com/WollatonHistorical/index.asp?pageid=322132).
FREE to members, £2 to visitors. St Leonard’s Community Centre, Bramcote Lane, Wollaton, NG8 2ND. 7.30 p.m.
Saturday 12th April 2014:
Luddite Martyrs Weekend - Luddite Bicentenary/Huddersfield Anarchist League
In what we hope will be an annual event, you are invited to commemorate the Luddite Martyrs who gave their lives over 200 years ago so that working-class people could envisage a different version of 'progress' than that imposed by the government and manufacturers and upheld by their inheritors ever since. 202 years after the failed Luddite attack on Rawfolds Mill, we invite admirers of the Luddites and those who carry their torch today to gather at the site of the new memorial to them in Liversedge. At this stage, our plans are limited to the gathering here and a drink in the Shears public house further up the road on the day itself, but it is likely we will also organise a walk along the route the Luddites took to Rawfolds on the evening of 11th April 1812 on the same weekend, if not the day itself. Possible other events on the Friday or Saturday evening could include a film show & talk and an evening of music and poetry.
FREE Liversedge Sparrow Park (junction of Knowler Hill & Halifax Road/A649 (http://g.co/maps/3e4yp)), Liversedge. Starting at approximately 12.00 p.m. facebook event (https://www.facebook.com/events/510996192295632/)
Friday 2nd May to Monday 5th May:
Breaking the Frame: A Gathering on the Politics of Technology - Luddites200 (http://www.luddites200.org.uk/index.html)
Our system of industrial capitalism is in both economic and environmental crisis. Part of the cause of these crises is the technologies that we use – although they do of course bring benefits, technologies are largely designed and controlled by corporate, military and technocratic elites to serve their interests and exert their power. So, in order to really face up to those crises we need a new politics of technology, a politics that goes beyond the myths that technology is just a neutral tool or that technological advances necessarily bring progress. The Breaking the Frame gathering is a step towards creating that new politics. We will be bringing together campaigns on the technology politics of food, energy/climate/ environment, work/economics/austerity, the military, the internet, surveillance health and gender, as well as trade unionists, radical scientists, artists and developers of alternative technologies. The aim is to learn from each other and to build a new network, to strengthen campaigns and make issues about technology more central in radical movements. Some of the issues we’ll discuss include:
- What does a critical politics of technology mean in the 21st century: democratic control or ‘low technology’?
- History of industrial society and environmental crisis; challenging the concept of progress through technology
- Experiences in different campaigns and struggles
- Alternative visions of social and technological development, and the transition to a sustainable and socially just society.
There will be demonstrations and workshops on craft-based production, poetry, music, walking etc. If you are interested in the gathering please email [email protected] The gathering will take place near Sheffield. FURTHER DETAILS TBA