Dismantlings: Words Against Machines in the American Long Seventies

by Matt Tierney

"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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501746413
• ISBN13: 9781501746413
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.6" x 9.4"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher