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, transform existing ones, and even discard some altogether.
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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/…
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/10.1…
Tools for degrowth? Ivan Illich’s critique of technology revisited – https://degrowth.info/en/library/tool…
Convivialist Manifesto – https://www.gcr21.org/publications/gc…
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