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Mohrbooks Literary Agency
Marie Arendt |
THE LUDDITE MANIFESTO
The manifesto of a growing movement of technocritical young people looking to downgrade the role tech plays in their lives.
This book makes a powerful, deeply felt argument for ditching social media and smart phones, written by someone who was handed her first iPhone in the fifth grade. Its thesis is that young adulthood is an ideal time to ditch the smartphone and to start building systems in our lives that promote offline community rather than hyperconnectivity.
Through the author's personal story, beautifully told yet never unrelatable, those of us who have thought, "I wish I could throw this phone into the river," can learn from someone who actually did it. She does not shy away from the difficulties a twenty-first century Luddite faces, but her case for all that is gained community, agency, tangibility, a more secure sense of self couldn't be more compelling.
Logan Lane is the founder of the luddite club, a community of people who try to build up connections outside of the digital world. She is twenty years old, and a student of comparative literature at Oberlin College.
Through the author's personal story, beautifully told yet never unrelatable, those of us who have thought, "I wish I could throw this phone into the river," can learn from someone who actually did it. She does not shy away from the difficulties a twenty-first century Luddite faces, but her case for all that is gained community, agency, tangibility, a more secure sense of self couldn't be more compelling.
Logan Lane is the founder of the luddite club, a community of people who try to build up connections outside of the digital world. She is twenty years old, and a student of comparative literature at Oberlin College.