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Tools for Conviviality
On Illich's diagnosis of the counterproductive institution, the two watersheds of industrial development, and the radical claim that beyond a certain threshold the tool destroys the very value it was built to deliver
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Deschooling Society
On the hidden curriculum of compulsory schooling, the institutionalization of learning as a product delivered by credentialed specialists, and Illich's alternative vision of learning webs
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Medical Nemesis
On Illich's systematic case that beyond a certain threshold the medical enterprise destroys health — through clinical, social, and cultural iatrogenesis — and what it means to reclaim the capacity for suffering
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Shadow Work
On Illich's concept of vernacular values, the unpaid labor that industrial society requires as the condition of its wage economy, and the recovery of the subsistence activities that industrial growth has made impossible
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The Church, the School, and the Hospital
On Illich as a Catholic priest and former Monsignor — the theological roots of his institutional critique, his argument that the Church invented the secular, and why he regarded the modern welfare state as a corruption of the Christian message