Facture of the Archive
Marriot Library, Room 2751 & Zoom 295 S 1500 E, Salt Lake City, UT, United StatesIn popular usage, “Luddite” denotes a curmudgeonly hater of technology – someone backward-looking, ignorant, and ultimately ineffectual. The eponymous nineteenth-century saboteurs, however, were not opposed to technology tout court, but rather to mechanization in the service of capitalism, and instead of looking backward they were...