Do We Work For Machines?

The pursuit of a better future involves questioning the very foundations of our current society, including the forms of technology that uphold it. Today we explore Ivan Illich’s concept of an /”overgrowth of tools,/” and the need to develop new tools of conviviality, transform existing ones, and even discard some altogether.

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Social Revolution: https://youtu.be/hfJMVb34FCo
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Library Economy: https://youtu.be/NOYa3YzVtyk

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Introduction – 0:00
Exploring Our Tools – 1:43
The Overgrowth of Tools & Its Consequences – 7:35
Tools For Conviviality – 11:04
Defining A Convivial Society – 15:38
Criticisms – 20:00
Illich’s Impact – 23:28
Outro – 26:02

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Sources & Resources:
Convivialism: A Philosophical Manifesto by Raymond D. Boisvert – https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/pluralist.5.2.0057
Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich
Innovation without growth: Frameworks for understanding technological change in a post-growth era by Mario Pansera and Mariano Fressoli – https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1350508420973631
Tools for degrowth? Ivan Illich’s critique of technology revisited – https://degrowth.info/en/library/tools-for-degrowth-ivan-illich-s-critique-of-technology-revisited
Convivialist Manifesto – https://www.gcr21.org/publications/gcr/global-dialogues/convivialist-manifesto-a-declaration-of-interdependence

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