Expressing opposition or hostility toward machinery, mechanical systems, or industrial manufacturing processes.
From 'anti-' + 'machinery' (the collective noun for machines and mechanical systems). Emerged alongside industrial-era critiques of automation and factory labor.
Antimachinery sentiment powered some of literature's most powerful moments—Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) is essentially antimachinery philosophy wrapped in gothic horror, exploring whether assembling things without understanding them leads to disaster.
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