A MODERN LUDDITE is a thinker, creator, and doer who embraceS conscientious progress over haphazard technological fixes and automatic living.

Discover Frictional Living With Us.

We are losing control of our minds, bodies, ecosystems, and politics. Technology is mediating too much of our lives.

Our minds are becoming reshaped by the incessant push to outsource our creativity and humanity, our attention diminished by the relentless onslaught of distracting information.

Our bodies are manhandled to submit to procedural procedures, subjected to industrial toxins, and treated as inconvenient machinery.

Our natural world is heated, polluted, pillaged, discounted, wasted, and ruined by the ever-growing needs and logics of technology.

Our politics are becoming governed by algorithms designed for others, divorced from lived realities, and dictated by cold and powerful machinations.

We are being stripped of our agency as we sleepwalk through the ravages and delights of our high-tech era.

And yet— we are not powerless.

We can fight back and care more about our omnipresent relationships to technology.

We can reclaim our agency, together.

We can build a future where technology serves life, not the other way around.

We can foster attentiveness, re-enchant the everyday, and design systems that honor human diginity and ecological balance.

Let’s detox our minds and rediscover spaciousness.
Let’s reclaim time for joy, depth, and real connection.
Let’s restore our bodies and regenerate the world around us.
Let’s resist what harms—and reimagine what could heal.

This isn’t just about critique. It’s about possibility.

The future is unwritten. Let’s shape it with care, courage, and creativity.

Let’s wake up— and build something better, together.

Ways To Get Involved

  • Free Your Mind

    Rediscover the wonders of your mind and master your own attention through these strategies, meditations, and mental travels.

  • Reclaim Your Time & Rediscover Joy

    Learn how to reclaim your time, experience non-digital pleasures, repair technological harms, and seek simple joy with friends, family, and strangers.

  • (De)Stuff

    Support your Modern Luddite lifestyle with gear, gifts, and garb in our curated shop.

  • Rage Against the Machine

    Explore ideas about technology and society, the power, politics, and ethics of emerging technologies, or contribute to the Modern Luddite Observatory to call out bad tech.

  • Confess!

    Are you a Modern Luddite? Take the quiz and share your strategies, tips, lifestyle, hacks and ways of thinking you use to recover your agency and evoke the power of care.

  • Come Together

    Join the community online, recommend resources, or set up your own Modern Luddite Gathering to experience the wonders of living well with and without technology.