[p2p-research] Fwd: pdf : Ivan Illich - Tools for Conviviality, 1973 - book

[Joss Winn]

If anyone here likes the idea of annotating Illich's Tools for
Conviviality, Energy and Equity and Deschooling Society, I republished
them here:

http://toolsforconviviality.digress.it/
http://deschoolingsociety.digress.it/
http://energyandequity.digress.it/

(the paragraph level commenting software is a WordPress plugin I helped
develop: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/digressit/ )

Joss



On 24/07/10 14:16, Michel Bauwens wrote:
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> From: *Dante-Gabryell Monson* <dante.monson at gmail.com
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> Date: Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 8:14 PM
> Subject: pdf : Ivan Illich - Tools for Conviviality, 1973 - book
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> in 1973, Ivan Illich in "Tools for Conviviality"
> 
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/2910912/1973-tools-for-convivality-Ivan-Illich
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> "My purpose is to lay down criteria by which the manipulation of people
> for the sake of their tools can
> be immediately recognized, and thus to exclude those artifacts and
> institutions which inevitably
> extinguish a convivial life style. Paradoxically, a society of simple
> tools that allows men to achieve
> purposes with energy fully under their own control is now difficult to
> imagine. Our imaginations have
> been industrially deformed to conceive only what can be molded into an
> engineered system of social
> habits that fit the logic of large−scale production. We have almost lost
> the ability to frame in fancy a
> world in which sound and shared reasoning sets limits to everybody's
> power to interfere with
> anybody's equal power to shape the world."
> 
> more :
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Illich?oldid=0#Tools_for_Conviviality
> 
> /Tools for Conviviality/ (1973) was published only two years
> after /Deschooling Society/. In this new work Illich generalized the
> themes that he had previously applied to the field of education: the
> institutionalization of specialized knowledge, the dominant role of
> technocratic elites in industrial society, and the need to develop new
> instruments for the reconquest of practical knowledge by the average
> citizen. Illich proposed that we should "invert the present deep
> structure of tools" in order to "give people tools that guarantee their
> right to work with independent efficiency."
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