RHM 415: Conservative Critics of Technology

This course explores a range of humanistic critics of technology whose views could be broadly construed as conservative. Readings will encompass a broad spectrum of sociopolitical movements and academic disciplines, from Luddism, Romanticism, and vitalism to early twentieth-century sociology, agrarianism, philosophy, non-Marxist critical theory, right-wing avant-gardism, political economy, and revolutionary conservatism.