How does the example “Luddite” commuicate in the context?

The context uses Luddite to show similarities with the campaign called “Earth First”. Luddite was a group of british people who destory maufactuing machinery and oppose to the revolution. In early 19th century, Luddite did violent-protest to warn concentration of capital and it said nothing concerned with losing a job. The behavior of Luddite was opposing the revolutionary and displacement. They destoryed machines to prevent displacement and [...]

Earth First

After reading the section describing the Earth First movement. I find interesting the contridicaiton of politics and government action. Politically it is a positive to be a supporter of the enviroment, Al Gore and President Clinton were praised on the ”Green” credentionals.  However, the government policy often restrict the type of protesting enviromental advocates are allowed to participate [...]

Earth First!ers as Luddites

In the section Redressing Progress, the author compares the Earth First!ers to Luddites of the past.  The Luddites were anti-industrialization and favored nature over the use of machinery.  The Earth First!ers have also adopted this view of fighting for the environment over the use of machinery.  Some Earth First!ers have even gone to the extreme of [...]

Kentuckians for the Commonwealth

The organization Kentuckians for the Commonwealth (KFTC) has been protesting many issues involving many aspects of Kentucky’s state regulations as well as its environmental standings for many years. In Contrary Images in America’s Heartland, the protest called “the Burial of Kentucky” is mentioned as they protested broad form deep strip mining. I have done some [...]

post modernism and illogical progression

In the section, “Setting the Context for Social Movements”, the discontinuity and irrational progression of post modernism is attacked and is described as living, “as the schizophrenics do, in a world of disconnected present moments that jostle one another but never form a continuous(much less logical) progression”.
This suggests that no pattern is evident, no trends [...]

Redressing progress

In reading the last few pages of the article, I have come to the conclusion that these so called “terrorists” have no intent of causing problems, but rather are only creating a fuss in reaction to what has being done to THEIR nature.  When it was said that Jill lived in a forrest and chilled [...]

Earth First=Tree Slime?

In “Guerilla Imagefare in the Woods,” Earth First is a no-compromise environmental group that focuses on the saving of forests and the natural beauty of the Earth. Earth First is sometimes considered an anti-industrialization group. Due to that label, newspapers have called the members of the group “tree slime” and “human vermin.” Woah! That is [...]

IRONY OF TERROR

 
From Image Politics:  The New Rhetoric of Enviornmental Activism, specifically under ‘Guerrilla Imagefare In The Woods’ an interesting judgment is asserted.  There is an incorrect objection stated that the starters of Earth First! are ‘qualified as terrorists’ (9).  I ask you, how can this be when they themselves were injured from violence?  Should it not be the violent backlashers who used [...]

Mind Bombs

“They are crystallized philosophical fragments, mind bombs, that work to expand ‘the universe of thinkable thoughts’ (manes, 1990, p.77).” Him talking about the Earth First campaign’s idea for “image events.”
I think that this sentence is a genius statement. The words he uses to describe how they will be depicted in the news are perfect. When [...]

Nonviolence answered with violence

Earth First! is an ecological group of protesters fighting for the environment. This group displayed serious and radical shows of protest without ever using violence in their actions. However, there are many events in the history of Earth First!’s protests where their nonviolent actions were answered with violence. For example, there was [...]

Luddites

DeLuca states that “Luddite is a rhetorical weapon, a devil term, used to silence those who question progress” (156). This is just after he explains that anyone who is “suspicious of ATMs, nostalgic for the sound of human voices on the phone, wary of computers, frightened by cars, disdainful of the information superhighway, or against [...]

Well?

Give us your random thoughts on the movie here.
What did it make you consider or reconsider?
What scene did you find particularly compelling?
Any connections to our contemporary political climate?
Did it spur thoughts on any of our other course readings?

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