Ivan Illich has argued for the creation of convivial, rather than manipulative institutions. Conviviality involves 'autonomous and creative intercourse among persons, and the intercourse of persons with their environment' ( ibid. : 24). In convivial institutions (and the societies they make up) modern technologies serve 'politically interrelated individuals rather than managers'. (Illich 1975: 12). infed.org
Ivan Illich (1926 - 2002) rose to fame in the 1970s with a series of brilliant, short, polemical, books on major institutions of the industrialized world. www.infed.org/thinkers/et-illic.htm
Ivan Illich was born in Vienna in 1926. He studied theology and philosophy at the Gregorian University in Rome and obtained a Ph.D. in history at the University of Salzburg. He came to the United States in 1951, where he served as assistant pastor in an www.newcriterion.com/archive/21/jan03/illich.htm
Ivan Illich has argued for the creation of convivial, rather than manipulative institutions. Conviviality involves 'autonomous and creative intercourse among persons, and the intercourse of persons with their environment' ( ibid. : 24). In convivial in www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,4563612-103684,00.html
I van Illich, the polyglot Austro-Croatian-Sephardic-Mexican-American philosopher and social theorist, died at the beginning of December last in Bremen, Germany. He had his hour of fame in the first half of the 1970s, when he appeared to be the most radi deadpool.rotten.com/people/I/
