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"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…
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2 editions- Other · English · 2019Cornell University Press · 232 pages · 9781501746413
- Other · English · 2019Cornell University Press · 232 pages · 9781501746567
United states, historyTechnologyHistoryRadicalismAmerican literatureHistory and criticismTechnology in literatureCivilization