Podcasts about conviviality

Luísa Santos (1980, Lisboa)Doutorada em Estudos de Cultura pela Humboldt & Viadrina School of Governance, Berlim, e Mestre in Curating Contemporary Art pela Royal College of Art, Londres, Luísa Santos é Professora Auxiliar e Investigadora em Estudos Artísticos desde 2016 na Faculdade de Ciências Humanas da Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Curadora independente desde 2009, integrou o CuratorLab da Konstfack, em Estocolmo, em 2013 e, desde 2019, é research fellow na European School of Governance (EUSG), em Berlim. Directora artística do 4Cs: from Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture, que iniciou 2017, do Institution(ing)s, com 10 instituições Europeias, desde 2023, e, também desde 2023, do Arctic Routes, Southern Ways, uma colaboração entre instituições Portuguesas e Norueguesas. Luísa Santos faz parte dos comités editoriais e científicos das revistas Estúdio, Gama, Croma e do Yearbook of Moving Image Studies (YoMIS - Research Group Moving Image Kiel), Büchner-Verlag e, desde 2021, é membro do comité de investigação do HANGAR, em Lisboa. Tem colaborado com instituições como Tensta Konsthall, SAVVY Contemporary – Laboratory of Form-Ideas, Fundació Antoni Tápies, Museet for Samtidskunst, P28, Museu Gulbenkian, Carpe Diem Arte & Pesquisa, Anozero, Frankfurter Kunstvrein, OK-Centrum, e fez a curadoria de várias exposições com artistas como Miguel Palma, Nikolaj Larsen, Yorgos Zois, Ângela Ferreira, Amira Hanafi, Marilá Dardot, Jeppe Hein, Jane Jin Kaisen, e Rouzbeh Akhbari. Tendo publicado extensivamente nos domínios da arte e sociedade, Luísa Santos é responsável pela edição da série the politics of immaterial cultures a publicar com a Routledge. Desde 2018, é co-directora da nanogaleria, que co-fundou com Ana Fabíola Maurício. Links: https://ciencia.ucp.pt/en/persons/lu%C3%ADsa-santos https://blog.artcuratorgrid.com/interviews-with-luisa-santos-joana-patrao/ https://www.4cs-conflict-conviviality.eu/tag/luisa-santos/posts https://blog.artcuratorgrid.com/a-letter-from-our-founder/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=DCp1ae5nhSI https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/305350668/Abstracts.pdf https://nanogaleria.weebly.com/about.html Episódio gravado a 18.10.2024 Créditos introdução: David Maranha - Flauta e percussão Créditos música final: Self Evident (live) / Ani DiFranco http://www.appleton.pt Mecenas Appleton:HCI / Colecção Maria e Armando Cabral / A2P / MyStory Hotels Apoio:Câmara Municipal de Lisboa Financiamento:República Portuguesa – Cultura / DGArtes – Direcção Geral das Artes

SummaryIn a world dominated by a striving for endless growth, it can be hard to see that while a drive towards money and individualism is great for the economy, it is fundamentally destructive for humanity, community & ecology. This conversation tackles us relearning our ability to grow our environment with each other & to meet our own needs rather than outsourcing to those who will make the divisions based on profit. It asks us to opt for less transactions & more relationships, it addresses the epidemic of loneliness and it settles on the idea that a little bit of debt is a good thing - relational debt that is.The time to navigate difficult & complex divisions  to make us anti fragile is now but it requires us to heal our hurt hearts so we can do the work we need to do in our current system. Degrowth is the salve, held by love that is the container for our path forward as humanity.Links You'll LoveTools for Conviviality - Ivan IllichNational Degrowth NetworkThe Overstory - Richard PowersLoved this? Try these:Ep 125 Jane Hilliard - EnoughnessEp 120 Just CollapseEp 77 Tammi JonasSupport the ShowCasual Support - Buy Me A CoffeeRegular Support - PatreonBuy the Book - Futuresteading - Live Like tomorrow mattersWe talked about:Poverty is political Building action into your everyday existenceSeeking inspiration from socialist countriesBuilding an obsession with nature Composting as a gateway drug Evolving from being individuals to being change making huddlesMaking academic theories approachable & practicalFinding collective inspiration for criticising growthCreating coalitions of the unlikely by side stepping black & white Creating containers for people who are looking to connect despite the inevitable conflicts that will ariseWe need more spaces to hold respected disagreementsDespite relationships being thorny, we are going to have to work this out.The hardest skills of all are the soft skills of really working wth humans - meeting people with what they need to unpack the complexity Being part of groups where the hard stuff can be heldBuilding the ‘neighbourhood' - learning the name of the person next door, even when they are different to youBeing materially dependent on one another is a good thingOur mobility has meant we are avoiding our ability to learn to manage conflict.Why cleverness is disarmingThe role of grief & gratitude in this journeySlow is smooth & smooth is fastInstead of air conditioners - lets have an afternoon napReturning us to our natural cycles & building our life around itSide stepping linear, capitalist striving.Connection to the earth is not lost on us - it's in our ancestral knowledge, but we need to sit still, reskill & really want to relearn Learning to be comfortable with a lack of controlSupport the show

Gene and Alyssa answer buckets o' questions: He asks what we use in our investment portfolios in place of bonds? They have old 401(k)s that give them heart burn at RMD time.  What should they do? If IRA profits are taxed at ordinary income tax rates instead of capital gains rates why should we do them? She asked us to review our ‘RMD Elimination Strategy'.  Lots more . . . Free Second Opinion Meetings Meet with a More than Money advisor to review your entire financial picture or simply project your retirement Meet with our Social Security partner to plan the best S/S strategy for you Meet with our estate planning attorney partner to review your estate plans – if you have any Meet with our insurance partner to review your life or long term care coverages Discover how to have your 401(k) professionally managed without leaving your company plan Schedule a free second opinion meeting with a More than Money advisor? Call today (610-746-7007) or email (Gene@AskMtM.com) to schedule your time with us.

Gene and Alyssa answer buckets o' questions: He wants to know if they should be using a Robo-Advisor? She asks why we don't name names when discussing protective investments? They want to know if there is a geographical limit to MtM's accepting clients?  (No!) She is 72, retired, and bored!  “No one will hire me”  What should she do?  Lots more . . . Free Second Opinion Meetings Meet with a More than Money advisor to review your entire financial picture or simply project your retirement Meet with our Social Security partner to plan the best S/S strategy for you Meet with our estate planning attorney partner to review your estate plans – if you have any Meet with our insurance partner to review your life or long term care coverages Discover how to have your 401(k) professionally managed without leaving your company plan Schedule a free second opinion meeting with a More than Money advisor? Call today (610-746-7007) or email (Gene@AskMtM.com) to schedule your time with us.

Michelle Berry Lane, poet, writer and former science teacher, describes how human creatures in these times of late-stage capitalism and modernity have separated from and  forgotten their relationship to the earth and all its other creatures. Citing Ivan Illich among others, she shows us how conviviality and mutuality can help use  re-member ourselves to the […] The post Michelle Berry Lane on Separation and Conviviality appeared first on Hazel Kahan.

New Courses at Parallax: https://parallax-media.eu/courses/og-rose-look-at-the-birds-of-the-air https://parallax-media.eu/courses/the-hard-way-with-luke-behncke Subscribe to our Substack: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Membership: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar I asked Jordan about his relationship with the philosopher and historian Ivan Illich and how that relates to his concept of Civium and his recent article: https://deepcode.substack.com/p/from-city-to-civium Jordan Hall is a visionary philosopher celebrated for his groundbreaking insights into the realms of collective intelligence, sense-making, and the intricate tapestry of modern civilization. With a keen intellect and a penchant for unraveling complex societal dynamics, he has emerged as a guiding light in our quest to fathom the intricacies of our rapidly changing world. Hall's contributions to the global discourse extend beyond his words; he is a true architect of change. His work illuminates pathways for societies and communities to deftly navigate the labyrinthine challenges of the 21st century, offering a compass for those seeking to understand and shape our collective destiny. (written with the help of ChatGPT) --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

Course Starts Saturday, November 4th: https://parallax-media.eu/courses/og-rose-look-at-the-birds-of-the-air ` Parallax Substack—sign up here: https://parallax.substack.com/ Parallax Events: https://parallax-media.eu/parallax-academy-calendar Parallax Academy: https://parallax-media.eu/curriculum Parallax Membership: https://parallax-media.eu/membership Parallax Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/1IBCLy7a4KhNXsH5ejtCaM As the second instalment of our ‘Tools for Conviviality' courses, philosophers Michel and Daniel Gardner, otherwise known as O.G. Rose, will discuss Ivan Illich in light of their own ideas and thoughts of great philosophers. The title of their course says it all in the most tantalising way. “Look at The Birds of The Air - How We Must Unplan Our Lives”! Bio: A finalist for the UNO Press Lab Prize and Pushcart Nominee, O.G. Rose's creative works appear at The Write Launch, Allegory Ridge, Ponder Review, Iowa Review online, The William and Mary Review, Assure Press, Toho Journal online, O:JA&L, West Trade Review, Broken Pencil, Burningword, and Poydras Review. While at the University of Virginia, O.G. Rose worked collaboratively with other artists at Eunoia, a creative community Rose helped develop. Rose now lives on a farm with three children, manages a venue named Mead Lake Lodge, and teaches piano using visuals from the DLG Pattern Method. Their published books include The Conflict of Mind (2021), Thoughts (2022), and Belonging Again: Part 1 (2023). Artist link: https://www.og-rose.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/podcast-c709ee4/message

I'm joined by author William Egginton to discuss his new book The Rigor of Angels. We talk Borges, Kant, and Heisenberg—and the big idea(s) they had in common. We discuss the antimonies of knowledge and the possibility that art is their solution. We discuss Coltrane, intelligence, creativity, biography, academia, and specialization vs. generalism. At the end, we discuss writing and publishing, the changing landscape of the book publishing industry, and how to think about writing for different audiences.Chapters:(0:00:00) - The Rigor of Angels(0:10:43) - The Antinomies of Knowledge(0:19:55) - Impact of Great Art and Thinkers(0:23:41) - Curiosity and Conviviality(0:30:31) - Creativity and Intelligence(0:43:28) - The Future of Writing and Publishing(0:49:27) - Academic vs. Popular WritingWilliam Egginton:✦ Buy the Rigor of Angels: https://amzn.to/3Rj3fDV✦ William on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WilliamEggintonOther Life✦ Subscribe to the coolest free newsletter in the world. https://otherlife.co✦ Become a member. https://otherlife.co/upgradeIndieThinkers.org✦ If you're an independent writer, join the next cohort of https://IndieThinkers.org

Born in Vienna in 1926, Ivan Illich acted as a Roman Catholic priest, a theologian, a philosopher, and a radical social critic. He died in December 2002. His 1971 book Deschooling Society criticises modern society's institutional approach to education, an approach that constrains learning to narrow situations in a fairly short period of the human lifespan. His 1975 book Medical Nemesis argues that industrialised society widely impairs quality of life by overmedicalising life, pathologizing normal conditions, creating false dependency, and limiting other more healthful solutions. Illich called himself "a Wandering Jew and a Christian pilgrim" and we can find the core beliefs that held his intellectual wanderings together discussed in a more general form in his 1973 book Tools for Conviviality. In this episode Owen Kelly reads excerpts from Tools for Conviviality, a book he has returned to again and again, to make sense of the arguments that Illich proposes - while wondering how we can get there from here, a question that Illich himself dismisses.

Andrew and Mia discuss how to bring anarchism into conviviality's often statist theorization and look at a few of the Convivialist ManifestosSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Andrew and Mia discuss the radical potential of conviviality, its history, and work of theologian Ivan Illich on the subjectSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Pastor Tinetti's sermon for Sunday of the Holy Trinity June 4, 2023 Sermon Text: Matthew 28:16-20

How do we really create systemic change? How do we shift narratives towards a generative future? How do we bring artists, scientists, policy makers, educators, conservationists, journalists, and all the different siloed tribes together in ways that let them genuinely communicate and listen to the web of life? This week's guest is someone who is actively working on so many levels to change all these things.  As you'll hear, Markus Reymann is a Director of a European Arts foundation, which doesn't sound nearly as exciting as it is. Because this is an arts foundation with a difference. TBA21 says of itself that it is a leading international art and advocacy foundation and it stewards the TBA21 Collection and its outreach activities, which include exhibitions, educational offers, and public programming. The TBA21–Academy, which Markus helped set up, is the foundation's research center, 'fostering a deeper relationship with the Ocean and other bodies of water by working as an incubator for collaborative inquiry, artistic production, and environmental advocacy. For more than a decade, the Academy has catalyzed new forms of knowledge emerging from the exchanges between art, science, policy, and conservation in long-term and collaborative engagement through fellowships and residency programs. All activity at TBA21 is fundamentally driven by artists and the belief in art and culture as a carrier of social and environmental transformation.'  We talk a lot about social and environmental transformation on this podcast: it's what we're here for and what we believe is essential not just to creating that future we'd be proud to leave behind, but to creating any liveable future at all for most of the species on the planet.  We talk a lot, too, about systemic thinking, about paradigm shifts and about our capacity as a species to let go of our dominant narratives, and the need for someone, somewhere to bring together the scientists, the artists, the policy makers, the journalists, the educators…and do it in a way that breaks down the barriers, lets them actually understand each other - and then shows them other cultures that think differently, that have different value systems than ours ,so they can see that there are different ways of doing things that will work. And this, is what Markus is doing. Here is someone who understands systemic thinking and who is applying it with depth and breadth and great heart.  Bio: Markus Reymann is Director of TBA21–Academy, a non-profit cultural organization he co-founded in 2011 that fosters interdisciplinary dialogue and exchange surrounding the most urgent ecological, social, and economic issues facing our oceans today. Markus leads the Academy's engagement with artists, activists, scientists, and policy-makers worldwide, resulting in the creation of new commissions, new bodies of knowledge, and new policies advancing the conservation and protection of the oceans. In March 2019, the Academy launched Ocean Space, a new global port for ocean literacy, research, and advocacy. Located in the restored Church of San Lorenzo in Venice, Italy, Ocean Space is activated by the itinerant Academy and its network of partners, including universities, NGOs, museums, government agencies, and research institutes from around the world.Reymann also serves as Chair of Alligator Head Foundation, the scientific partner of TBA21–Academy. Alligator Head Foundation established and maintains the East Portland Fish Sanctuary, and oversees a marine wet laboratory in Jamaica.TBA21 https://tba21.org/TBA21–Academy: https://tba21.org/tags/?tag=tba21_academyOcean Space in Venice https://tba21.org/tags/?tag=ocean_spaceWalid Raad https://www.walidraad.com/Anthropocene Observatory https://www.territorialagency.com/anthropoceneWoods Hole Oceanographic Observatory https://www.whoi.edu/

This roundtable is the first event in the TCRU@50 programme of activities celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Thomas Coram Research Unit. Following an introduction to TCRU's history, the speakers reflect on race, multiculture, and conviviality in the shadow of Brexit, COVID, and the Windrush scandal, three events that have each exposed and exacerbated racialised inequalities. Speakers: Prof Les Back (Glasgow University) Prof Ann Phoenix (UCL, Thomas Coram Research Unit) Dr Sivamohan Valluvan (Warwick University) More info: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ioe/events/2023/feb/race-multiculture-and-conviviality-shadow-brexit-covid-and-windrush-scandal

In this episode, Joe interviews Gina Gratza, MS, LMFT: Portland, OR-based research therapist and educator at InnerTrek, a psilocybin facilitator training program. She discusses MDMA, Burning Man, therapy, psilocybin, and more. www.psychedelicstoday.com

Welche alternativen Rhythmen stecken in der Digitalität und wie können diese dabei helfen, andere Zukünfte zu üben und hervorzubringen?  Kollaborative Podcast-Transkription Wenn ihr Future Histories durch eure Mitarbeit an der kollaborativen Transkription der Episoden unterstützen wollt, dann meldet euch unter: transkription@futurehistories.today FAQ zur kollaborativen Podcast-Transkription: shorturl.at/eL578   Shownotes Shintaro Miyazaki an der Humboldt Universität: https://medienwissenschaft-berlin.de/leute/miyazaki-shintaro/ Shintaro Miyazaki auf Mastodon: https://mediastudies.berlin/@kontratanz Miyazaki, Shintaro. 2022. Digitalität tanzen! Über Commoning & Computing. Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. [PDF verfügbar]: https://www.transcript-open.de/isbn/6626 Savic, Selena, Bedö, Viktor, Büsse, Michaela, Martins, Yann and Miyazaki, Shintaro. Toys for Conviviality. Situating Commoning, Computation and Modelling. Open Cultural Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 2020, pp. 143-153.: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2020-0015 Weitere Links und Mailingliste zum Buch: https://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~miyazash/tanzen/ Thinking Toys (or Games) for Commoning – Forschungsprojekt  2018-2021, Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst (Nordwestschweiz): https://commoning.rocks/ Critical Data Lab (Humboldt Universität): https://www.criticaldatalab.org/   Weitere Shownotes Gabriele Klein: https://www.transcript-open.de/author_id/0000000839 Klein, Gabriele (Hrsg.). 2004. Bewegung: Sozial- und kulturwissenschaftliche Konzepte (Sozialtheorie). Bielefeld: transcript Verlag. [PDF verfügbar]: https://www.transcript-open.de/isbn/199  Parable of the Polygones: https://ncase.me/polygons/ Henri Lefebvre (Wikipedia): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Lefebvre Eva von Redecker: https://www.evredecker.net/de/ Donna Haraway (Monoskop): https://monoskop.org/Donna_Haraway Global Commoning System: https://commoningsystem.org/de/startseite/ https://project.commoningsystem.org/ Marcus Meindel: https://marcus-meindel.de/ Claus Pias (Wikipedia): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claus_Pias Forschungsprojekt „Gesellschaft nach dem Geld“: https://nach-dem-geld.de Robert Kurz (Wikipedia): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kurz Sutterlütti, Simon & Meretz, Stefan. 2018. Kapitalismus aufheben. Hamburg: VSA Verlag. [PDF verfügbar]: https://www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rls_uploads/pdfs/sonst_publikationen/VSA_Sutterluetti_Meretz.pdf   Weitere Future Histories Episoden zum Thema S02E28 | Marcus Meindel zum Global Commoning System: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e28-marcus-meindel-zum-global-commoning-system/ S02E17 | Robert Seyfert zu algorithmischer Sozialität: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e17-robert-seyfert-zu-algorithmischer-sozialitaet/ S02E06 | Alexander Kluge zu Zukünften der Kooperation: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e06-alexander-kluge-zu-zukuenften-der-kooperation/ S01E47 | Stefan Meretz zu Commonismus: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e47-stefan-meretz-zu-commonismus/ S01E39 | Jens Schröter zur Gesellschaft nach dem Geld: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e39-jens-schroeter-zur-gesellschaft-nach-dem-geld/ S01E37 | Eva von Redecker zur Revolution für das Leben: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e37-eva-von-redecker-zur-revolution-fuer-das-leben/ S01E12 | Daniel Loick zu Anarchismus: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s01/e12-daniel-loick-zu-anarchismus/   Keywords: #FutureHistories, #Podcast, #ShintaroMiyazaki, #JanGroos, #Interview, #Algorythmus, #Algorithmen, #Rythmus, #Tanzen, #Digitalität, #Computing, #Gaming, #Modelling, #CriticalDataLab, #Commons, #Commonismus, #CommonsBasedPeerProduction, #AgentBasedModelling, #SozialeProduktion, #SocialProduction, #Kapitalismus, #Zukunft, #DasRegierenDerAlgorithmen, #Digitalisierung, #Commoning        

In this episode, Rivers is hangin' out in Nashville, Tennessee with two of our show's ALL STAR guests: comedians Chris Crofton and Dr. Benjamin Sawyer! We kick this one off by chugging a South African energy drink that's on the brink of expiration before launching into the tale of the "Fattest Man in Tennessee" from the mid-to-late 19th century. We also take a peek at Chris and Ben's hometowns of New Canaan, Connecticut and Mt. Pleasant, North Carolina, respectively. Skid Row's "I Remember You" is our JAM OF THE WEEK. Give us a boot scootin' listen, y'all! Follow Chris Crofton on Twitter and Instagram @TheCroftonShow. Follow Dr. Ben on Twitter and Instagram @SawyerComedy.  Follow the show on Twitter @TheGoodsPod.  Rivers is @RiversLangley  Sam is @SlamHarter  Carter is @Carter_Glascock Subscribe on Patreon for HOURS of bonus content! http://patreon.com/TheGoodsPod Pick up a Goods from the Woods t-shirt at: http://prowrestlingtees.com/TheGoodsPod

This episode Dr. Amy Sapola and Farmer Lee Jones talk with Chef Matt Jennings. Matt is the founder of Full Heart Hospitality, an award-winning chef, restaurateur, author, and life-long disciple of hospitality. Matt has had a number of his own culinary outposts, including the beloved Farmstead, Inc. group in Rhode Island and most recently, Townsman in Boston. After consulting for some clients in the Boston area and dedicating his life to wellness, Matt made the decision to pursue Full Heart's vision full time. Matt is a five time James Beard Foundation finalist, has been recognized by the White House, Food & Wine Magazine, The New York Times, The Mother Nature Network and is a Certified Workplace Wellness Coach as of 2018. A focused creative, Matt has been cooking since he was 14 and he brings the same passion and zest for the business- that which helped make his own establishments so successful- to every Full Heart partnership. His expertise lies in culture creation, creative concepting, team enrichment and systems analysis.

Deanna and Serena are the incredible co-founders of A Teaspoon of Spice. As dietitians, social media stars, cookbook authors and globe-trotters who are on a mission to make all things “Mediterranean Diet” more accessible, relatable, and doable. We discuss: Their process for recipe development; why travel is integral to developing a deeper sense of culture and cuisine; how the simplest recipes are often overlooked;  why beef is a actually a sustainable choice, and other buzzwords that have fallen victim to baseless greenwashing & health-halo-ing, and how to start incorporating some small but impactful habits and routines in the kitchen that can make meals cheaper; healthier; tastier, and easier to prep, cook, and eat with people you love. This episode is pure CONVIVIALITY, people! I know you're going to love it as much as I do.    Q+A: Scale, food tracker, or WHAT?    Enter to win: Share a screenshot or a selfie of you listening to the episode with your favorite tip/anecdote from the episode with me on instagram @jaclynlondonrd to enter to win a copy of Serena & Deanna's forthcoming book!  Preorder: The Sustainable Mediterranean Cookbook  Support the  On the Side podcast by subscribing to the show; rating us 5-stars & leaving a review Follow me on  Instagram, Tiktok and  Twitter Get in touch:  jaclyn@jaclynlondonrd.com

We have all heard about the "Mediterranean" diet.  But what does it mean to live the Mediterranean LIFESTYLE?  In the Mediterranean, they get up with purpose and vigor, embrace the day, and prioritize meaningful connections with others, even during everyday activities. They embrace a simple way of living that focuses on creating happiness. They work to live, paying close attention to what brings them joy.  Our husband and wife guests, Anita Heidema, Rich Life Strategy Guru, and Dario Tomaselli, Internationally acclaimed chef, created "O'Live Your Life" to empower and enable others to embrace this simple way of life.  Having purpose, possessing a greater sense of everyday gratitude, reducing stress, and improving meaningful connections to people and the world around you contributes to a healthier and more fulfilling way of life.  This episode is inspiring, will force you to self reflect and put your own life into perspective-- especially if you are facing change, struggle and new milestones.  Icing on the cake...Dario's adorable Italian accent will draw you in and make you smile. 

What is low tech? In the struggle against climate change, politicians are getting behind technological innovation. But some experts believe that, rather than high-tech, we should instead be banking on the simple, robust and reparable solutions offered by low tech. The all-powerful nature of high-tech has been called into question for decades, with regular controversies and debates on subjects like robots, satellites or artificial intelligence. As far back as the 1970s, author Ivan Illich published “Tools for Conviviality” about the proper use of technology, in which he argued that society should “give people tools that guarantee their right to work with independent efficiency”.In this day and age, tools are overwhelmingly controlled by specialists. For example, very few of us know how to build or repair a smartphone, car or washing machine.  Isn't the awesome thing about technology that it's guaranteed to become more and more complex? Right, well what could a low-tech life look like then? Where can I get started in turning to low tech? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions! To listen the last episodes, you can click here: What is the thyroid? What is asthma? What is ecological debt? A podcast written and realised by Joseph Chance. In partnership with upday UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joel takes over the podcast for another wide-ranging "reviewer round-up" with two excellent first-time guests. They talk a lot about books that intersect with the conversation about race in America, and of course, list off the titles they are currently reading.Joshua E. Livingston is a writer and community developer currently residing in Indianapolis. He is the director of Cultivating Communities and the author of Sunrays on the Beachhead of the New Creation (Wipf & Stock, 2021).Myles Werntz is associate professor of theology and director of Baptist studies at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas. He is the author or editor of several books, including Bodies of Peace, A Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence, and the brand new book, From Isolation to Community: A Renewed Vision for Christian Life Together (Baker Academic).Books and Writing Mentioned in this Episode:If you'd like to order any of the following books, we encourage you to do so from Hearts and Minds Books(An independent bookstore in Dallastown, PA, run by Byron and Beth Borger) Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism by Jonathan TranJosh's written review of Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial CapitalismSunrays on the Beachhead of the New Creation by Josh LivingstonBodies of Peace: Ecclesiology, Nonviolence & Witness by Myles WerntzA Field Guide to Christian Nonviolence: Key Thinkers, Activists & Movements for the Gospel of Peace by David Cramer & Myles WerntzFrom Isolation to Community: A Renewed Vision for Christian Life Together by Myles WerntzThe Loneliest Americans by Jay Caspian KangMinor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning by Cathy Park HongHow to Be Normal: Essays by Phil ChristmanMyles' written review of How to Be NormalMidwest Futures by Phil ChristmanBreaking Ground: Charting Our Future in a Pandemic Year by Plough/CommentRacecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Barbara Fields & Karen FieldsHeathen: Religion and Race in American History by Kathryn Gin LumShared Wisdom: Use of the Self in Pastoral Care and Counseling by Pamela Cooper-WhiteThe Psychology of Christian Nationalism: Why People are Drawn in and How to Talk Across the Divide by Pamela Cooper-WhiteThat We May Be One: Practicing Unity in a Divided Church by Gary B. AgeeHumbler Faith, Bigger God: Finding a Story to Live By by Samuel WellsThe Internet is not What You Think it is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning by Justin E. H. SmithLife Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community by Dietrich BonhoefferTools for Conviviality by Ivan IllichH20 & the Waters of Forgetfulness by Ivan IllichDeschooling Society by Ivan IllichConfessions by Augustine (Translated by Sarah Ruden)Paul Among the People: The Apostle Reinterpreted and Reimagined in His Own Time by Sarah RudenSimone Weil: An AnthologyLeisure: The Basis of Culture by Josef PieperIndigenous Theology and the Western Worldview by Randy WoodleyLisey's Story by Stephen King

About the Episode Our focus here at Daily of the Month is to put our attention on the outcomes of mindful collaborations. If we look around the world, it is fairly apparent that our social and ecological environments are showing us that we are living out of balance. Now more than ever, there is a need for an intimate understanding of the patterns for generative collaborations and organizing as collectives at scale, if we want to transcend our current predicaments and find balance again. This episode focuses on exploring how we can navigate this time between worlds as individuals and in organization with others. The ‘rudiments' of collaboration are guiding us in our search for alternative ways to engage with each other. At this point, it feels like the human and its imagination for what what life could be, seem to be the limiting factors. This is why placing human development at the center of our design process for the future, seems like an appropriate move. We are curious to explore what a new Human Development for the 21st century could look like. In the journey to develop this thesis it is important to to be conscious of the ‘pebbles' and patterns that let us know that we are on the right path. Our Guests Bonnitta Roy and Simone Cicero bring life and interesting perspectives to this conversation. They also shared with us, which patterns they have seen help individuals and groups orientate themselves in order to have agency in creating preferred outcomes. Terms Salience Landscape: This expression comes out of the cognitve sciences and refers to an internal map that individuals create of all things that are relevant to them in their environment Post Formal Actor This expression was coined by Bonnitta and, "refers people who “operate on” the roles, rules, norms and procedures, by challenging and experimenting with them, (perhaps even ignoring and obliterating them), and by creating new roles, rules, norms and procedures. Post-formal actors can also “operate on” the larger context by reframing the context, redirecting action, and regenerating new contexts. Action Protocols Are based on first first principle heuristics and help actors to engage in mindful action and orient them towards perferred futures. There usage is particularly imporant in times when our maps of meaning start to break down. Conviviality In his book Tools for Conviviality Ivan Illivich describes how technology should not rob us of our humanity, making us mere cogs in the machine.It should however provide us with tools that ensure our right to work autonomously and in connection with our environment and neighbors. This is the meaning of Conviviality and Illivich believed this ideal to be one of the highest ethical values of a modern society. Chris, Markus, Joshua, Andreas, Franziska PS: Gladly accepting feedback send an email to post@dailyofthemonth.de or through our Signal Group http://signal.dailyofthemonth.de.

I spoke with the writer and technological theorist L.M. Sacasas about his work, grounding your perception of digital technology in philosophy, and moving towards a more coherent understanding of what the Internet is. Subscribe to his Substack here.Theme: Computer Love by Kraftwerk

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What does it mean to create convivial organisations and platforms? Today we explore the relationship between technology and society with L. M. Sacasas – and what we can learn from the philosopher Ivan Illich (1926-2002).  L. M. Sacasas is the associate director of the Christian Study Center of Gainesville, Florida and author of The Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology and society. Michael has written for The New Atlantis, The New Inquiry, Real Life Magazine, Mere Orthodoxy, Rhizomes, The American, and Second Nature Journal.    Ivan Illich was a philosopher, Roman Catholic priest, and critic of the institutions of modern Western culture, who addressed contemporary practices in education, medicine, work, energy use, transportation, and economic development.    In this episode, we explore what we mean by conviviality, having tools to empower – not de-skill – humans, the necessity of limits, re-envisioning the good life, and how Ivan Illich has such a big global following in today's society.      A full transcript of the episode can be found on our website: https://boundaryless.io/podcast/l-m-sacasas/   Key highlights we discussed: > The meaning of conviviality and the influence of Ivan Illich on L. M. Sacasas' work > The accuracy of Ivan Illich's predictions on mental health, education and work > Examples of convivial tools  > Identifying how to measure progress and where to aim better > Why the real world needs to embrace virtual reality      To find out more about Michael's work:   > Twitter: https://twitter.com/LMSacasas   >  The Convivial Society newsletter: https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/      Other references and mentions:   > The Abolition of Institutions: On Ivan Illich with LM Sacasas and Nina Power: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast-episode/podcast//id1195362330?i=1000528978020 > Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality, 1973: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1842300113 > Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society, 1971: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deschooling_Society > Thinking After Ivan Illich: https://thinkingafterivanillich.net/ > David Chalmers, Reality+, 2022: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0393635805 > PD Smith, Reality+ by David J Chalmers review – are we living in a simulation?, https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jan/19/reality-by-david-j-chalmers-review-are-we-living-in-a-simulation > Boundaryless Whitepaper, New Foundations of Platform-Ecosystem Thinking — Designing Products and Organizations for a changing world, 2020: https://platformdesigntoolkit.com/DOWNLOAD-NF Find out more about the show and the research at Boundaryless at https://boundaryless.io/resources/podcast/   Thanks for the ad-hoc music to Liosound / Walter Mobilio. Find his portfolio here: https://boundaryless.io/podcast-music   Recorded on 20 January 2022.

In today's podcast we discuss another fine that KPMG received in the UK from the FRC. This relates to their audit of Conviviality.  https://www.frc.org.uk/news/january-2022-(1)/sanctions-against-kpmg-llp-and-nicola-quayle Go to https://www.tryvoomer.com/big4 to get 10% off or use code big4 at checkout.  Support our podcast through the following link https://www.buymeacoffee.com/ZDdaxk7GK If you are inquiring about being a guest on the show, please see this link first.  https://big4accountingfirms.com/podcast-guest/ make sure to subscribe to our youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/c/TheBig4AccountingFirms Check out our interview course.  https://big-4-accounting-firms.teachable.com/p/big-4-interview To subscribe to our podcast on itunes make sure to visit the following link. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-big-4-accounting-firms-podcast/id1089822233?mt=2 Check out our books on amazon Big 4 Interviews questions https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XK9VZYF Big 4 Accounting Firms Recruiting guide https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N4BUP0N Follow us on social media at https://www.linkedin.com/company/big4accountingfirms https://twitter.com/top4accounting https://www.facebook.com/thebig4accountingfirms/  

Show Subjects; Celebrities that passed away the last week of 2021 including one of Scott's favorites, Betty White. Rolls Royce Claims It Has World's Fastest All-electric Vehicle. Hint, its not a car. Scott takes a train ride for the first time in over a decade. Discover Satisfying Real Cheese Taste In Cheez-It® Extra Toasty Baked [...] The post #417 – Betty White – Rivian – Comic Book Cybersecurity – Harley – Conviviality appeared first on What Happened.

Welcome Mike Nimetz - Project MGR, Coach and host of the LEO Podcast to the show!  Mike has a multitude of skills and we talk about the future and how important it is to build community as well as HOW to do it.  Mike has a course called Ethical Emergence which brings people together to learn the skills of communication and behavior change.  He has a course in my Library on strategy and I'm super happy to be able to introduce him. He is a project manager for Autonomy Unlimited and was one of the organizers of Anarchapulco, Agorapulco and will soon be hosting an event in Acapulco called RESPIRAR ACAPULCO.  He's been in Acapulco for the past 7 years building an alternative community based on peace, autonomy and voluntaryism.  Find Mike's Podcast here: https://www.bitchute.com/channel/lrvnXobTpGJM/The Raising Excellence Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUV-7zpzwwppq3DxQBYWdVQLearn More About Autonomy here:https://www.universityofreason.com/a/29578/Sj8gMdYHHere's a link to my latest offer:https://bootsy-greenwood.mykajabi.com/reality-reading-roomGet FREE Audiobooks:https://bootsygreenwood.com/storeJoin our free facebook group here:https://www.facebook.com/groups/760024584443824Get on a Discovery call to #getcoached here: https://calendly.com/bootsygreenwood/discovery-callFind Your Life's Purpose with the Path to Purpose Course: https://bootsy-greenwood.mykajabi.com/your-true-you-1Apparel: https://bootsy-greenshop.creator-spring.com/?Add the Public #getcoached event calendar here:https://bit.ly/3mzq7xBCheck out the Contact at the Cabin event here:https://contactatthecabin.com/magic/Amazing introduction music by my friend Oscar Sanchez - give him a follow: https://www.twitter.com/ourworldchangeCheck out all the contributors to Alt Media United HERE:https://altmediaunited.com/all-podcasts/Get my free ebook to learn about the unseen mechanisms of reality and become your most authentic self:https://bootsygreenwood.comSupport the show (http://www.patreon.com/bootsygreewood)

David Cayley has written a magisterial synthesis and interpretation of his late friend and colleague, Ivan Illich (1926-2002), 'Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey', which reveals the ongoing relevance of Illich's searing social critiques. Illich was a radical Christian, cultural historian and itinerant scholar who soared to international fame in the 1970s with such books as 'Medical Nemesis,' 'Deschooling Society' and 'Tools for Conviviality,' which criticized professional institutions for diminishing our humanity. Illich helped lay the intellectual foundations for the world of commoning by validating the power of “vernacular domains” in which we self-organize ourselves – the informal spaces where we perform the “shadow work” of commoning and caring that the mainstream economy and political culture ignores.

Critical Zones | Assembly Towards Permacircular Museums [21.04.2020] An art institution is a place of encounter of subjectivities, of visibility, and world-making. Its main functions are based on conservation, accumulation, and energy-intensive practices. This roundtable considers the concept of the »art footprint« to deconstruct the museum's foundation on practices inherited from ecocidal capitalism, such as temperature control, low-cost flights, and the white cube. In the spirit of Ivan Illich's »Tools for Conviviality«, what strategies could lead to re-tooling institutions and empowering low carbon communities? with Diane Drubay (Founder of We Are Museums, Berlin), Hicham Khalidi (director of Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht), farid rakun (member of ruangrupa, collective artistic director of documenta 15), Tino Sehgal (artist) and an activation by Mira Hirtz (performance artist and art mediator, Karlsruhe)

Sobre o Sandbox:As sandboxes [caixas de areia] são locais públicos onde as crianças podem jogar e experimentar. Assentes na ideia de liberdade criativa, estes locais têm também como premissa a autonomia de quem joga – as caixas de areia não apresentam por si só um jogo, mas um espaço onde o jogo pode existir. São por isso palcos onde a criatividade pode ser exercitada e exibida.O termo sandbox foi entretanto apropriado pela linguagem informática segundo uma filosofia semelhante: torna-se um local virtual onde os programas podem ser testados sem receio de potenciais danos no sistema. O mesmo acontece com o subgénero de videojogos sandbox: espaços virtuais onde quem joga tem ao seu dispor um conjunto de ferramentas para criar situações e tomar decisões autónomas, escolhendo os seus próprios percursos, ações e aventuras.O projeto educativo Sandbox pretende unir as caixas de areia físicas com as virtuais. Ao estabelecer um espaço de experimentação , procura pensar o processo de mediação e educação como um jogo autónomo em constante construção, propondo ferramentas para expandir as suas possibilidades em cada interação, exposição ou momento.Em 2021 e 2022 o trabalho desenvolve-se fundamentalmente em parceria com duas instituições: Colégio Valsassina, do ensino básico ao secundário e IST – Faculdade de Arquitectura.Joana PatrãoNascida em 1992, Barcelos, artista plástica e educadora, vive e trabalha no Porto. Licenciou-se em Artes Plásticas na Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto em 2014 e em 2016 obteve o Mestrado em Pintura na mesma instituição, após um período de Erasmus na Aalto University em Helsínquia.
Expõe regularmente desde 2013, destacando-se as exposições individuais mais recentes: A brisa do maremoto (2021) na Appleton [Box]; Céu de sal, sal da terra (2020), com curadoria de Luísa Santos no Lab Box, Art Curator Grid, Lisboa e a exposição online Becoming: meditations (2020), com curadoria de Maria Eduarda Duarte para o 4Cs - From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture.Paralelamente, dedica-se à educação e mediação artística.
Entre 2016 e 2020, foi monitora da Universidade Júnior, um evento sazonal da Universidade do Porto, e em 2019 concebeu e orientou Unidades de Formação Contínua, na Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto.
Em 2020, integrou a equipa do Serviço Educativo da Fundação de Serralves e desde o início de 2021 que é responsável pelas visitas orientadas à galeria INL, no gnration, no âmbito do programa Circuito - o Serviço Educativo da Braga Media Arts, que integra a rede de cidades criativas da UNESCO.Durante o ano de 2021, dedicou-se ao desenvolvimento de um novo projecto de Serviço Educativo - o Sandbox, em parceria com José Costa, para a Appleton - Associação Cultural.José CostaNasceu em 1991, em Barcelos. Estudou na Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto onde se licenciou em Artes Plásticas (2009-2014) e tirou o mestrado em Pintura (2014-2016).Como artista desenvolve projetos multidisciplinares que incluem vídeo, pintura e instalação, assentes em narrativas especulativas de ficção científica.
Expõe desde 2014 destacando-se as exposições: fora inverno, já era primavera (...) no Espaço Mira, Porto, 2020; a releitura do mundo no Espaço Mira, Porto, 2020; fora com dentro dentro na Mupi Gallery, Porto, 2017; , (vírgula) na Painel, Porto, 2016; E como estrelas/ duplas/ (...) (com Joana Gomes) na Casa do Vinho de Barcelos, 2016; CUBICULUM MIRABILIA (com Tiago Madaleno) no Museu Geológico de Lisboa, 2016; Complexion I no Laboratório das Artes, Guimarães, 2016.Entre 2015-2016 integrou a equipa de curadoria do Projecto Galeria Painel com Catarina Real, Luís Ramos e Tiago Madaleno.Como educador colabora com o Serviço Educativo do Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves desde 2017. Faz parte da equipa do projecto Janelas Para o Mundo desde 2019, um projecto de workshops mensais nos Estabelecimentos Prisionais de Custóias e Santa Cruz do Bispo.Desde 2021 que co coordena com Joana Patrão o projecto Educativo Sandbox na Appleton Associação Cultural.Links:https://appleton.pt/incubadora/?lang=pt-pthttps://cargocollective.com/joanapatraohttps://www.facebook.com/bienaldecoruche/videos/entrevista-a-joana-patr%C3%A3o/302342754051644/https://www.gnration.pt/event/adriana-romero-e-joana-patrao-6/https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=Is0w8EmUVZchttp://5md.belasartes.ulisboa.pt/2020/11/30/joana-patrao/https://www.4cs-conflict-conviviality.eu/post/the-fold-s-joana-patraohttps://blog.artcuratorgrid.com/interviews-with-luisa-santos-joana-patrao/https://www.viralagenda.com/pt/events/456165/em-montagem-com-jose-costahttp://www.artecapital.net/preview-199-artecapital-ciclo-de-conversas-i-em-montagem-i-jose-costa-19-jan-21h30-appleton-squarehttps://www.serralves.pt/institucional-serralves/18.09.01.02.05-sole-servicoeducativo-atividadesonline-atividadesartes-artistas-de-ganga/https://www.maushabitos.com/events/170311-jose-costa-um-fora-com-um-dentro-dentro/Episódio gravado a 15.10.2021 http://www.appleton.pt Mecenas Appleton:HCI / Colecção Maria e Armando Cabral Financiamento:República Portuguesa - Cultura / DGArtes Apoio:Câmara Municipal de Lisboa

Paris Marx is joined by André Brock to discuss the history of Black people's online activity, the internet's association with whiteness, and what Black Twitter can tell us about the centrality of Black people to digital culture.André Brock is an associate professor of media studies at Georgia Tech. He writes on Western technoculture, Black technoculture, and digital media. His award-winning book, Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures, theorizes Black everyday lives mediated by networked digital technologies. You can get if from NYU Press, and it's available through open access. Follow André on Twitter at @DocDre.

Nina Power is a cultural critic, social theorist, philosopher, author, and translator. Her upcoming book, “What Men What” is forthcoming later this year. Take the Illitch course from Nina herself at https://Illitchcourse.com Use coupon code AGORA to get 30% off! We discuss the works of Roman Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, and social critic, Ivan Illitch, covering some of his most famous works such as Deschooling Society, Medical Nemesis, & Tools for Conviviality, we also discuss learning networks, social media & the state, iatrogenic harm and the medical-industrial complex, sex, gender, and economic neutering, and Illitch's conceptions of conviviality, austerity and eutrapelia. - Agora Politics is a podcast dedicated to making sense out of our outdated theories of politics. I'm Alex Murshak, political theorist. Subscribe to my channel for videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSDjdhAe9Z7EatYg3OGLKug Follow Agora Politics on Twitter: https://twitter.com/agora_politics/ Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/amurshak/ — Subscribe on: Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSDjdhAe9Z7EatYg3OGLKug Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/agora-politics/id1496531814 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/agora_politics Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5xfgHAlhswC6PWlTZC5S58?si=fY-OxZqASPWtxFnAqyLCbg Wherever you find your podcasts

In this episode, I am joined by Dr. Jeffrey Bilbro, associate professor of English at Grove City College and the author of a new book entitled Reading the Times: A Literary and Theological Inquiry into the News.Meet Dr. Bilbro: Jeffrey Bilbro is the editor-in-chief of Front Porch Republic and associate professor of English at Grove City College. He holds a PhD from Baylor University. He has written for Christianity Today, First Thing, Comment Magazine, and The Gospel Coalition. He is also the author of Loving God's Wildness: The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature and Virtues of Renewal: Wendell Berry's Sustainable Forms.Resources:Reading the Times by Jeffrey BilbroBreaking Bread with the Dead by Alan JacobsThe Tech-Wise Family by Andy CrouchTools for Conviviality by Ivan IllichWalden or Life Without Principle by Henry David Thoreau

We talk with the preeminent biographer of Ivan Illich on the life and times of the great Catholic anarchist priest; Giorgio Agamben and the coronavirus; why friendship is the modern form of prophecy, and much more.➡️  Nina Power's course on Ivan Illich: IllichCourse.com➡️  Join 6,000+ readers of my newsletter at OtherLife.co➡️  If you're working on long-term creative or intellectual work, request an invitation to IndieThinkers.org

We all know by now that Zoom causes fatigue, social media spreads misinformation and Google Maps is wiping out our sense of direction. We also know, of course, that Zoom allows us to cooperate across continents, that social media connects us to our families and Google Maps keeps us from being lost. A lot of technological criticism today is about weighing whether a technology is good or bad, or judging its various uses. But there's an older tradition of criticism that asks a more fundamental and nuanced question: How do these technologies change the people who use them, both for good and for bad? And what do the people who use them — all of us, in other words — actually want? Do we even know?L.M. Sacasas explores these questions in his great newsletter, “The Convivial Society.” His work is marrying the theorists of the 20th century — Hannah Arendt, C.S. Lewis, Ivan Illich, Marshall McLuhan, Neil Postman and more — to the technologies of the present day. I've found this merging of past thinkers and contemporary concerns revelatory in an era when we tend to take the shape of our world for granted and forget how it would look to those who stood outside it, or how it looked to those who were there at the inception of these tools and mediums.Sacasas recently published a list of 41 questions we should ask of the technologies and tools that shape our lives. What I loved about these questions is how they invite us to think not just about technologies, but about ourselves, and how we act and what we want and what, in the end, we truly value. So I asked him on the show to talk through some of them, and to see what light they shed on the lives we live.Mentioned: "The Questions Concerning Technology" by L. M. Sacasas"A Theory of Zoom Fatigue" by L. M. Sacasas"Do Artifacts Have Ethics?" by L. M. SacasasTechnics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford"Before We Make Out, Wanna Dismantle Capitalism?" by Emilia Petrarca"The Analog City and the Digital City" by L. M. Sacasas"The Materiality of Digital Culture" by L. M. Sacasas"When Silence Is Power" by L. M. SacasasBook recommendations: Tools for Conviviality by Ivan IllichThe Human Condition by Hannah ArendtTechnology and the Character of Contemporary Life by Albert BorgmannYou can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of "The Ezra Klein Show" at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein.Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.“The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Annie Galvin, Jeff Geld and Rogé Karma; fact-checking by Michelle Harris; original music by Isaac Jones; mixing by Jeff Geld, audience strategy by Shannon Busta. Special thanks to Kristin Lin.

ኤስቢኤስ ትግርኛ ቃለመሕትት ምስ ዶክተር ጀሆናታን ቤን፡ጀሆናታን ቤን ኣብ'ዚ ኣብ ኣውስትራልያ ኣብ ዲክን ዩኒቨርሲቲ ንልዑል ደረጃ ትምህርቲ ሃልይዎም ኤርትራዊ ድሕረባይታ ዘለዎም መጻእቲ ኣብ ኣውስትራልያ ማእከል ዝገበረ ሓደ ንምድላይ ሽቕለት/ስራሕን በይነባህላዊ መርበባት ርክብ ወይ ዝምድና ኣብ መልበርን ዘሎ ሓዲግ ዝኾነ ጉዕዞ ዝድህስስ ብእንግሊዝ ‘Ambivalent Motion: Eritreans' Work Pursuits and Intercultural Connections in Melbourne' ዘርእስቱ መጽናዕቲ ኣካይዱ። ኣብ'ዚ ቀረባ ግዜ ብዶክተረይት ማዕርግ ተመሪቑ'ሎ። ትሕዝቶ'ዚ መጽናዕትን ኣገዳስነቱ ኣብ'ዚ እዋንን ከብርሃልና ንዶክተር ጀሆናታን ዓዲምናዮ ኔርና። ንምሉእ ትሕዝቶ ስርሑ (ፒኤችዲ ቲሲስ) ኣብ'ዚ መላግቦ ክትረኽብዎ ትኽእሉ፡ https://dro.deakin.edu.au/view/DU:30147542

Bij elke uitvinding die belooft het leven te vergemakkelijken, kun je deze vraag stellen: word ik hier een zelfstandiger, bekwamer mens van? Of worden menselijke kwaliteiten juist overbodig gemaakt? En mensen daarmee afhankelijk? Lees Tools for Conviviality van Ivan Illich. Lees hier het artikel: https://decorrespondent.nl/12523/dit-boek-over-gereedschap-is-zelf-een-stuk-gereedschap/1316756820225-6dadcf81 ***Ben je lid? Gebruik de Correspondent-luisterapp! Vanaf nu kun je voor de beste en meest privacyvriendelijke luisterervaring terecht in de Correspondent-app. Ontdek 500+ shows en verhalen en ga in gesprek met je favoriete correspondenten. Download de app snel in de app-store! Geen lid? Maak ook onafhankelijke journalistiek mogelijk en krijg toegang tot de app: corr.es/wordlid. *** Productie : Julius van Ijperen, Kerem Özilhan en Jacco Prantl Voor vragen, opmerkingen of suggesties mail naar post@decorrespondent.nl

Bij elke uitvinding die belooft het leven te vergemakkelijken, kun je deze vraag stellen: word ik hier een zelfstandiger, bekwamer mens van? Of worden menselijke kwaliteiten juist overbodig gemaakt? En mensen daarmee afhankelijk? Lees Tools for Conviviality van Ivan Illich. Lees hier het artikel: https://decorrespondent.nl/12523/dit-boek-over-gereedschap-is-zelf-een-stuk-gereedschap/1316756820225-6dadcf81 ***Ben je lid? Gebruik de Correspondent-luisterapp! Vanaf nu kun je voor de beste en meest privacyvriendelijke luisterervaring terecht in de Correspondent-app. Ontdek 500+ shows en verhalen en ga in gesprek met je favoriete correspondenten. Download de app snel in de app-store! Geen lid? Maak ook onafhankelijke journalistiek mogelijk en krijg toegang tot de app: corr.es/wordlid. *** Productie : Julius van Ijperen, Kerem Özilhan en Jacco Prantl Voor vragen, opmerkingen of suggesties mail naar post@decorrespondent.nl

Nina Power is a British philosopher. She is teaching an online course about Ivan Illich at https://IllichCourse.com.✦ We made a detailed syllabus for anyone interested in exploring Illich further. Download it at https://IllichCourse.com✦ Are you working on long-term intellectual work? Request an invitation to https://IndieThinkers.org

Last time, we suggested that to recover our humanity in an increasingly inhuman world, we must recover what Ivan Illich called the tools of conviviality. But this requires, at least in part, that we recognize the difference between cultural tools and modes of life which deskill and those which, increasingly, simply cultivate greater dependence.The difference just noted between cultural tools and modes of life which deskill and those which, increasingly, cultivate dependence may be reconfigured another way: The Church has long confessed and taught that our Creator has blessed us, his image bearers, with unique capacities to mirror him in love and productive self-donation, with self-giving service that generates God-glorifying things in others and in the world at large. Capacity, along these lines, is a helpful index to calling. This skill in thoughtful and productive service belongs to our root identity and vocation as human beings—vocation, that is, in comprehensive life terms, not merely in the sense of the job we do for a paycheck. It therefore finds expression in the myriad ways we creatively, productively, and thoughtfully use, manipulate, and configure the gifted stuff of creation and providence, especially in terms of time, space, and our callings as male and female, as laborers and worshipers, as persons with natural affinities and with spiritual ones. But to the extent our God-given vocations, along these basic lines, are blunted, weakened, even deadened by increased dependence on others, and especially large others like the state, we find ourselves, corporately and individually, becoming less human.In today’s episode, Michael Sacasas and Dr. Mark A. Garcia conclude their conversation from last week on the life and work of Ivan Illich. The first five minutes of today’s episode repeat the last five of the first episode, to help listeners with a bit of context for what follows. If you haven’t yet listened to Episode 42, we encourage you to do so first and then continue with today’s conclusion.Please also note that Mr. Sacasas has also taught a ten-lecture micro-course for Greystone which reflects many of the themes and concerns captured in these conversations. Called “Technology, Faith, and Human Flourishing,” you can access this series of lectures and many others at GreystoneConnect.org If you can graciously bear with my saying so once again, if you are, or become, a Greystone Member at GreystoneConnect.org you of course already have access to this series and all other Greystone full courses, microcourses, study days, special lectures and more.Thank you once again for spending some time with us today to reflect together on the shape and direction of greater faithfulness to our triune God. And now, the continuation and concluding part of a two-part conversation with Mr. Michael Sacasas on Ivan Illich, conviviality, and the way of faithfulness and wisdom, which is episode 43 of Greystone Conversations.

To recover our humanity in an increasingly inhuman world, we must recover tools of conviviality. So what makes a tool convivial. For Ivan Illich, tools foster conviviality to the extent to which they can be easily used by anybody as often or as seldom as desired for the accomplishment of a purpose chosen by the user. That is, convivial technologies are accessible, flexible, and most importantly noncorrosive. But this runs hard against the grain of a world in which we've been catechized from our youth to believe that without the tools of the professional guild, especially the credentials that they alone can give, we are uneducated, worthless, anonymous, even meaningless. Is there a better way? Unless we find it, we risk destroying one another and ourselves.In an earlier conversation, and in other Greystone contexts, we've suggested the importance of appreciating the exodus event as liberation not from oppression in general, but oppressions of various particular sorts clarified, identified, and addressed throughout the canon of Christian scripture. One of which is the oppression of the endless demands of productivity. In the Egyptian's sabbath-less world--a world as real now as it was back then--work is a 24/7 reality yielding a mode of life driven by productivity, commodification, and, of necessity, competition. In such a world, you can only have competitors since you need a Sabbath space of rest and rejoicing without labor in order to have a neighbor. To put it differently, if nobody can work in sabbath time and in sabbath space, then, because of that time and space, your neighbor is your neighbor and not your competitor, and life as a result is clearly more than work and productivity. The world in which we live now appears to be very similar to that world from which Yahweh liberated his people, and is thus a world in constant tension with what we are and who we are for as human beings made in the image of God. But how do we articulate the nature of this problem, how do we better understand the way things should be and how we ought to be by reflecting wisely on how and why things are the way they are? Is the solution as simple as opting for traditional liberalism or traditional conservativism? Or is it perhaps a matter of tweaking this or that minor feature of every day life for a better end? Or is the diagnosis and thus the solution far deeper than this and more wide-ranging? As an organization and institution, Greystone is driven by a unique mission that includes recalling the ways it used to be valued in ministerial and theological formation contexts. The way, that is, communal, slow, thoughtful, textual, conversational, theological, focused on quality rather than quantity, hospitable, realistic, and humble. And we endeavor to bring these old ways into the new world in which we now live. Taking our cue from the role of the Sabbath in the exodus event, we see our mission as a call to renewal not in the form of revolution but of courageous and thoughtful resistance to the commodification and hypeindustrialization of relationships and processes in our world, believing that this resistance is quite key to the church's welfare and success in the world. Along side which we commend a better way--the better way--of the biblical world and the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Today's podcast, part one of a two-part series, explores and reflects upon hyperindustrialization and the influence of Ivan Illich on much of what might be considered The Greystone Way. To discuss the life and work of Ivan Illich, Dr. Mark A. Garcia, President and a Fellow in Scripture and Theology at Greystone Theological Institute, sits down with Greystone's Associate Fellow in Ethics and Culture, Michael Sacasas.The Skill of Hospitality: Ivan Illich on technology and the human future

Conviviality versus Connection

This semester, our associate director, Michael Sacasas, is delivering three lectures on the thought of the 20th-century Christian scholar and social critic, Ivan Illich.The second lecture, “Conspiratorial Friendship: Ivan Illich and the Politics of Conviviality,” was delivered as a Zoom webinar on Wednesday, March 3rd. The audio of that lecture is included here.Introduction: 00:00 - 02:25Lecture: 02:26 - 43:50Q&A: 43:51 - 01:01:36The third lecture, “Reclaiming the Senses: Perceiving the World with Ivan Illich,” will be presented on Wednesday, March 24rd at 8:00 p.m. (EST). Use the link below to register. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christianstudycenter.substack.com

This is the fifth session of Mike Sacasas's director's class on the life and work of Ivan Illich. The topic of this class is Tools for Conviviality.If you'd like to join the Tuesday afternoon class live on Zoom, please email Mike at mike@christianstudycenter.org. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christianstudycenter.substack.com

This is the fourth session of Mike Sacasas's director's class on the life and work of Ivan Illich. The topic of this class is Tools for Conviviality.If you'd like to join the Tuesday afternoon class live on Zoom, please email Mike at mike@christianstudycenter.org. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christianstudycenter.substack.com

Catching up with Zak Stein and exploring how his recent work—especially on education—resonates with John’s. A too short but very sweet conversation between these two amazing and life generating thinkers. Essential spiritual and intellectual guides for our tragic and confused times. John Vervaeke is a professor at the University of Toronto and the creator of the popular online YouTube Series ‘Awakening from The Meaning Crisis’, which is a rich feast of cognitive science, philosophy, religion, and the history of ideas. What makes Vervaeke special in my opinion is the breadth of his work, but his courage descend the ivory tower and talk to people ‘on the street’—and to exemplify his ideas. His hero is Socrates, and he embodies the living dialogue and courage that Socrates represents. Zak Stein is philosopher of education working at the interface of psychology, metaphysics, and politics. He has published two books, including Education in Time Between Worlds, along with dozens of articles. This writing was done as he worked co-founding a non-profit and think tank, as well as teaching graduate students at Harvard, and consulting with technology start-ups. Zak is a long time meditator, musician and caregiver, which has shaped him more than any professional engagements. (Source: https://www.systems-souls-society.com) Link: John Vervaek’s Awakening from the Meaning Crisis Zachary Stein: Covid 19: A war in heaven DONATE ON PAYPAL Patreon Medium Rebel Wisdom Articles Twitter Facebook Intro music: Beautiful Machines, by Andrew Sweeny --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/podcast-c709ee4/message

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What is low tech? Thanks for asking!In the struggle against climate change, politicians are getting behind technological innovation. But some experts believe that, rather than high-tech, we should instead be banking on the simple, robust and reparable solutions offered by low tech. The all-powerful nature of high-tech has been called into question for decades, with regular controversies and debates on subjects like robots, satellites or artificial intelligence. As far back as the 1970s, author Ivan Illich published “Tools for Conviviality” about the proper use of technology, in which he argued that society should “give people tools that guarantee their right to work with independent efficiency”. In this day and age, tools are overwhelmingly controlled by specialists. For example, very few of us know how to build or repair a smartphone, car or washing machine. Isn’t the awesome thing about technology that it’s guaranteed to become more and more complex?Well not everyone agrees with that. Experts have warned that renewable energies, nanotechnologies and biotechnologies all use up scarce resources, which are complex and difficult to recycle. The idea behind low tech is effectively to do more, better, with less. From a technical point of view, a low tech object should be durable, robust and reparable or recyclable. It should also consume little in the way of raw materials and energy. So designers are coming up with low-tech houses, cars, agriculture and even computers. But remember that renewable materials don’t last forever. It would be foolish to think we can maintain current production levels with different techniques. So before figuring out how to optimise production techniques, we need to accept that producing less is a necessity. OK so we’re talking about people who want us to go back to the stone age basically! In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions!To listen the last episodes, you can click here: What is The Cartel Project?What is an mRNA vaccine?What is Fast Fashion?A podcast written and realised by Joseph Chance. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

SPIN's trio of Colin Clark, David Evans and George Donaldson pick apart Rally Turkey, while the Voice of Rally questions whether stage-end interviews aren't what they used to be. This episode was recorded before the cancellation of Ypres Rally, so the trio also ponder how the highly-regarded Belgian rally was gearing up for its WRC debut.

Welcome back to another episode of Enjoy the Vue. This concludes our three-part interview with Babel maintainer, Henry Zhu. Last time, we closed our discussion with what work maintainers of open source projects do that is not straight coding. In this episode, we continue talking with Henry about what do people count as maintenance work versus other tasks that definitely need to get done, but are perhaps less visible to the public eye. Henry also shares his approaches to taking care of himself and the pursuit of serendipity, and we discuss the inclusivity of the open source community, the relationship between in-person communities and open source culture, and we get into our picks of the week, so make sure not to miss this episode! Key Points From This Episode: Henry opens with the dichotomy between freedom and obligation for maintainers. Maintainers don’t see certain tasks as maintenance, such as answering user queries. What Henry does to take care of himself, like sport or playing music, and his musings on what serendipity looks like in an online setting. Spaces that promote serendipity, and why actively pursuing serendipity is not a paradox. There are communities like Google Summer of Code that promote open source involvement. Preferences are shaped through experiences of the communities, so it is important that they be inclusive, particularly for women. The relationship between in-person communities and open source culture. Ben’s picks this week include a ukulele, Azul, and Nadia Eghbal’s book, Working in Public. Veekas recommends Kim’s Convenience and Race After Technology by Ruha Benjamin. Henry’s picks include Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich, and a card game called The Mind. Tessa suggests Journey, the Reply series, and Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice. Tweetables: “How do we get people to have a higher sense of ownership so that we can lessen the burden on maintainers?” — @left_pad [0:02:37] “There's an aspect of serendipity involves risk, and involves trust and faith in something, in the future. Me putting myself out there is going to lead to something good.” — @left_pad [0:05:50] “I feel being more intentional, specifically reaching out to people, or getting involved in certain communities is probably better. There are formal versions of this, like Google Summer of Code. We've done that and Rails Girls, Summer of Code, stuff like that. Yeah, maybe we need more of that, instead of this blanket like, ‘Hey, anyone can get involved.’” — @left_pad [0:07:48] “For a tool, we want self-expression from the people that use it and I think coding is – or anything, [Illich] mentions education, and school, and medicine, and coding could be another thing where it's increasingly harder to learn how to code, even though now we have boot camps and stuff.” — @left_pad [0:17:46] Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode: - Henry Zhu on Twitter (https://twitter.com/left_pad?lang=en) - Henry Zhu on GitHub (https://github.com/hzoo)  - Henry Zhu (https://www.henryzoo.com/) - Hope in Source Podcast (https://hopeinsource.com/) - Maintainers Anonymous Podcast (https://maintainersanonymous.com/) - Babel (https://babeljs.io/) - Google Summer of Code (https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/) - Rails Girls (http://railsgirls.com/) - Vue Vixens (https://www.vuevixens.org/) - Working in Public (https://www.amazon.com/Working-Public-Making-Maintenance-Software/dp/0578675862) - Kim’s Convenience on Netflix (https://www.netflix.com/title/80199128)  - Race After Technology (https://www.amazon.com/Race-After-Technology-Abolitionist-Tools/dp/1509526404) - Tools for Conviviality (https://www.amazon.com/Tools-Conviviality-Ivan-Illich/dp/1842300113/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Tools+for+Conviviality&qid=1601903637&s=books&sr=1-1) - Journey (https://thatgamecompany.com/journey/) - Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice (https://www.amazon.com/Conquer-Your-Critical-Inner-Voice/dp/1572242876/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Conquer+Your+Critical+Inner+Voice&qid=1601904786&sr=8-1) - Enjoy the Vue on Twitter (https://twitter.com/enjoythevuecast?lang=en) - Enjoy the Vue (https://enjoythevue.io/) Special Guest: Henry Zhu.

In this episode we are hosting Mariana Pestana, the curator of the 5th Istanbul Design Biennal. Mariana is an architect and independent curator based in London and Lisbon. Her research trajectories include critical social practice and the role of fiction in design; for an age marked by technological progress and an ecological crisis.She is a member of The Decorators, an interdisciplinary practice that makes collaborative public realm interventions and cultural programmes. She formerly worked at the Department of Architecture, Design and Digital at the V&A Museum and lectured at Central Saint Martins, Chelsea College of Arts, Royal College of Arts, Universidade do Minho and Sandberg Institute.We delve into Mariana Pestana's works, her various collaborations and speculate about the future for design, and how design produces futures. The question of curating design, employing social typologies, and how design contributes to shaping the world are topics we touch upon. Along with her generous articulation of the current edition of the Istanbul Design Biennial, where we are also collaborating with her.Episode NotesCurated by Mariana, the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial titled “Emphaty Revisited” is set to open at October 15.https://tasarimbienali.iksv.org/en/news/5th-istanbul-design-biennial-to-tackle-origins-of-empathyCurated by Mariana and Rori Hyde, “Future Starts Here” was an exhibition at V&A Museum that took place in 2018. It posed questions about the ways that emerging technologies will affect our lives in the near future, and what choices we have, as citizens, to influence their development.https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/about-the-future-starts-here-exhibitionCo-curated with Pedro Gadanho, “ECO VISIONARIES – ART AND ARCHITECTURE AFTER THE ANTHROPOCENE” at MAAT Lisbon centered on practices that propose critical and creative visions vis-à-vis the environmental transformations that are disturbing the world right now.https://www.maat.pt/index.php/en/exhibition/eco-visionaries-art-and-architecture-after-anthropoceneStudio Ossidiana is based in Rotterdam, working with an international team of architects, designers and researchers, and is actively involved locally and globally with projects across the Netherlands, Italy, Turkey, and the US.http://www.studio-ossidiana.com/aboutFounded by Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby, Dunne & Raby is a London based practice that uses design as a medium to stimulate discussion and debate amongst designers, industry and the public about the social, cultural and ethical implications of existing and emerging technologies.http://dunneandraby.co.uk/content/biographyOrkan Telhan is an interdisciplinary artist, designer and researcher whose investigations focus on the design of interrogative objects, interfaces, and media, engaging with critical issues in social, cultural, and environmental responsibility.https://www.orkantelhan.com/aboutElii is an office of architecture based in Madrid.http://elii.es/en/projects2/The Decorators is a multidisciplinary design collective founded by Suzanne O’Connell, Xavi Llarch Font, Carolina Caicedo and Mariana Pestana. http://the-decorators.net/AboutFrom November 2013 to April 2014, Chrisp Street Market was host to a project entitled 'Chrisp Street On Air' - a pilot exercise in rejuvenating London markets. The project, conceived by the Decorators, began with a radio station set up within the market and available online. The radio station invited locals to explore the market's history, character, and future. The radio component also informed a further programme of events in conjunction with local organisations, such as a boxing exhibition with the Lansbury Amateur Boxing Club.http://www.designcurial.com/news/this-is-temporary-transient-architecture-4802906/public works is a not-for-profit critical design practice set up in 2004 that occupies the terrain in-between architecture, art and performance.https://www.publicworksgroup.net/about/Tools for Conviviality is a 1973 book by Ivan Illich about the proper use of technology.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tools_for_Conviviality

Over the past couple of months, believing that Ivan Illich’s thought indeed spoke with renewed urgency to our moment, I’ve revisited two of his earliest and best known books, Tools for Conviviality and Deschooling Society. Three key themes caught my attention this time around and I thought it might be useful to discuss them here, even if only briefly.  Get full access to The Convivial Society at theconvivialsociety.substack.com/subscribe

You can listen to the newsletter by clicking the play button above or you can click the “Listen in Podcast app” link and follow the directions to open this feed in your podcast app. Currently, you may find the feed on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify.You are listening to the weekly newsletter of the Christian Study Center of Gainesville. This first week of July, we're reflecting on one of our most precious resources, our attention. If you are not already subscribed to the newsletter we encourage you to do so. You can find a link on our website at christianstudycenter.orgOne of the conditions of living in a world structured by digital media is that we are daily overwhelmed by an unremitting, uninterrupted, and relentless flood of information. Under these conditions, the capacity to rightly order our attention becomes an indispensable virtue. Disclaimer: attention is a topic that I've addressed on numerous occasions, including the first talk I ever gave at the study center in 2018. So I'm hesitant about taking up the theme again, but I remain convinced that it is a topic of immense importance and one we do well to revisit with some frequency. I won't comment on digital distractedness or social media platforms designed for compulsive engagement or the inability to get through a block of text without checking your smartphone 16 times or endless doomscrolling, as it is now fashionable to call it, (really just a new form of the old vice acedia) or our self-loathing tweets about the same. These matter only to the degree that we believe our attention ought to be directed toward something else, that it is in these instances somehow being misdirected or squandered. Attention, like freedom, is an instrumental and penultimate good, valuable to the degree that it unites us to a higher and substantive good. Perfect attention in the abstract, just as perfect freedom in the abstract, is at best mere potentiality. They are the conditions of human flourishing rather than its fulfillment. In his famous Kenyon College commencement address, the novelist David Foster Wallace argued that we should understand attention as constituting a form of freedom. “The really important kind of freedom,” Wallace claimed, “involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom.” This at least gives a useful heuristic by which we might think about attention. Does it feel to you as if you are free in the deployment of your attention throughout any given day? I know that it often doesn't feel that way to me. I frequently find myself attending to what I know I shouldn't or unable to attend to what I should. This is not a function of external coercion, strictly speaking. I experience it chiefly as a failure of will, as a form of unfreedom stemming from a regime of conditioning to which I've submitted myself more or less willingly. And I feel the loss. The loss of focus, yes. The loss of productivity, yes. But also the loss the world and the loss of some version of myself to which I aspire. I find myself needing constantly to ask, “What is worthy of my attention?” or, better, “What is worthy of my attention given what I claim to love, what I aim to accomplish, and who I hope to become?” If by our attention we grant its object some non-trivial power over the course of our thoughts, feelings, and actions, then this may be one of the most important questions we can ask ourselves. Several years ago, reflecting on this very matter, I wrote about the need for what I called attentional austerity. Austerity is not a warm or appealing concept, of course. But Ivan Illich can help us better frame the matter. “Austerity,” he wrote in Tools for Conviviality, has also been degraded and has acquired a bitter taste, while for Aristotle or Aquinas it marked the foundation of friendship. In the Summa Theologica … Thomas deals with disciplined and creative playfulness. In his third response he defines “austerity” as a virtue which does not exclude all enjoyments, but only those which are distracting from or destructive of personal relatedness. For Thomas “austerity” is a complementary part of a more embracing virtue, which he calls friendship or joyfulness. It is the fruit of an apprehension that things or tools could destroy rather than enhance [graceful playfulness] in personal relations.From this perspective, then, austerity becomes a virtue in service of a greater good, a virtue we do well to recover. But it is not only a matter of consciously ordering one's attention toward the good, of wresting it back from an environment that has become a elaborate Skinner box, it is also the case that we would do well to cultivate a form of expectant attentiveness to what is, a form of attention that commits itself to seeing the world. The Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz once observed that “In ancient China and Japan subject and object were understood not as categories of opposition but of identification.” “This is probably the source of the profoundly respectful descriptions of what surround us,” he speculated, “of flowers, trees, landscapes, for the things we can see are somehow a part of ourselves, but only by virtue of being themselves and preserving their suchness, to use a Zen Buddhist term.”Further on in the same essay he wrote about the wonder that arises when, as he put, “contemplating a tree or a rock or a man, we suddenly comprehend that it is, even though it might not have been.” This kind of wonder is perhaps its own reward as well as the gateway to the love of wisdom as the ancient philosophers believed. I hear in Milosz's words an invitation, an invitation to step away from the patterns of digitally mediated reality, which while not without its modest if diminishing satisfactions, can overwhelm other modes of perception, temporality, and place. The question of attention in the age of digital media may ultimately come down to the question of limits, the acceptance of which may be, paradoxically given modern assumptions, the condition of a more enduring and satisfying life. What digital media promises on the other hand is an experience of limitlessness exemplified by the infinite scroll. There is always more and much of it may even seem urgent and critical. But we cannot attend to it all, nor should we. I know this, of course, but I need to remind myself more frequently than I'd care to admit. Michael SacasasAssociate DirectorStudy Center ResourcesPascal's is closed from July 27th through July 5th and will re-open on Monday, July 7th.In next week's Dante reading group, we will be covering cantos 22-25 of the Inferno. If you'd like to connect with group, please email Mike Sacasas at mike@christianstudycenter.org.Be sure to check out the archive of resources available online from the study center. Classes and lectures are available at our audio archive. You can also peruse back issues of Reconsiderations here.Recommended Reading— Alan Jacobs's 79 theses on attention, which will, in fact, repay your attention. Genuinely to attend is to give of oneself with intent; it is to say: For as long as I contemplate this person, or this experience, or even this thing, I grant it a degree of dominion over me. But I will choose where my attention goes; it is in my power to grant or withhold.Yet as soon as we think in this way, the way Simone Weil urges that we think, questions press insistently upon us: Do I really have the power to grant or withhold? If not, how might I acquire that power? And even if I possess it, on what grounds do I decide how to use it?— Brad Littlejohn on the importance of coming to a shared apprehension of reality:In other words, we must somehow learn to hold together passion and patience: a deep conviction that the truth matters, and that our differences on a matter so urgent are intolerable. And at the same time we must be willing to wait—to wait on the world for more clarity about what is actually going on, to wait on our friends through the long months and years it can take to come to a common mind, and to wait on the Lord for the strength to endure it all. For it will be painful—both passion and patience come from the same root meaning “to suffer.” — Ten years after publishing The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains, Nicholas Carr talks to Ezra Klein about the book and its enduring relevance. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit christianstudycenter.substack.com

Hello everyone, First off, that was a great first thread on Tools for Conviviality. Secondly, for session two, we’ll have our synchronous discussion tomorrow night (Monday, June 29th) at 8 PM (EST). I’ll post another thread that should arrive in your inbox around 7:30 PM. Thirdly, here is audio of a conversation I was honored to have with Carl Mitcham, a philosopher of technology and close associate of Ivan Illich’s going back to the 1970s. I should note that this is my first venture into podcast-like interview territory, which I readily admit is not exact something I’m naturally gifted for. That said, Carl relates some great anecdotes about Illich and sheds a little light on some questions that arose in the first thread (e.g., Illich was a bit naive and ill-informed in his praise of China in Tools). Carl closes with some reflections on his own experience teaching a semester a year in China. Anyway, enjoy that. Also, I’m thinking of offering the main newsletter essay in this same audio format with accompanying text, of course. If you have any thoughts on that, let me know!Looking forward to chatting with all who are able tomorrow evening,Michael Get full access to The Convivial Society at theconvivialsociety.substack.com/subscribe

In our second Knowledge Drop episode, co-host Matt Downing sits down with Raj Lewis, the director of a residential men's program. Raj and Matt dive into the impact our systems of education has on those experiencing poverty. They talk about meeting individuals where they are on their life path, encouraging quality of life assessments in social work, and how these ideas might impact K-12 education. Plugs include Iowa BIG, Trellis For Tomorrow, Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich. Music by Scott Holmes.

Cyber spies steal prototype missile data. Others hack into South Asian telecoms, and still others go after easyJet passengers’ travel data. Cyberattacks, misinformation, and cyber fraud continue to follow the COVID-19 pandemic. Joe Carrigan weighs in on the Thunderspy vulnerability. Our guest is James Dawson with insights on DMARK threats and why it’s worse during COVID-19. And think twice before you post, no matter how good or bad you think the beer is. For links to all of today's stories check out our CyberWire daily news brief: https://www.thecyberwire.com/newsletters/daily-briefing/9/98

Paul Holdengräber is joined by designer, author, and artist Edwin Schlossberg on episode 040 of The Quarantine Tapes. They discuss the act of listening and collaborative problem solving.Edwin Arthur Schlossberg (born July 19, 1945) is an American designer, author, and artist. He specializes in designing interactive, participatory experiences, beginning in 1977 with the first hands-on learning environment in the U.S. for the Brooklyn Children's Museum. Schlossberg continues to work in the field and publishes frequently on the subject. He is the husband of Caroline Kennedy.He has published 11 books, including "Einstein and Beckett and Interactive Excellence: Defining and Developing New Standards for the Twenty-first Century". His artwork has been presented in many one-man shows and museum exhibits. In 2011, he was appointed to the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts by  President Barack Obama.Episode Footnotes: Paul DaviesThe Demon in the MachineJohn Cage Interviewed by Jonathan Cott (1963) Buckminster Fuller Buckminster Fuller Werner Erhard 7 hour conversationThe World Game White paper Erving Goffman The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Show Opening... But first (0:39); Between Two Hosts (1:15); Cambridge Safe & Strong group looking for city specific COVID-19 numbers (22:07); Premier Ford updates Ontarians on COVID-19 situation (43:40); Biomedical Apparatuses or Conviviality? (1:05:58); PlantForm partnerships responding to COVID-19 testing and treatment needs (1:26:58); Waterloo Region Business Booster shot: Meal in a Jar (1:47:29)

This week's episode features Daniel Barda of the french Dixieland Jazz Band, Paris Washboard, before his performance at the Capitol Theatre this past February. Paris Washboard has recorded numerous CDs, including 11 for Stomp Off Records, based in York, PA. We chat poignant memories of being a musically gifted child, concerts in France vs. in the USA, favorite cheeses, and advice for young musicians! Send us your live streaming concert recommendations so we can feature them with our listeners on Twitter @GRGPod or on Instagram @GreenRoomGossipPodcast ---------- The Appell Center for the Performing Arts is so much more than beautiful historic theatres. We foster and inspire the artists of tomorrow. We unite friends and loved ones. We cultivate a bustling downtown. And we delight every patron who walks through the door.  We know times are uncertain for many in our community, but your support will make a significant impact on how The Appell Center weathers this storm. This fund will help the Appell Center through this potentially devastating period of financial uncertainty. Your gift will support our dedicated staff, maintain our historic venues, and ensure that we are prepared to welcome you back as quickly as we can. Our financial viability directly impacts the future vibrancy of downtown York and our community’s ability to survive and thrive when the dust settles. Please give what you can today at appellcenter.org --------- Founded in 1988, the band is made up of four instruments: clarinet, trombone, piano, and washboard. The success they have had around the world since 1988 can demonstrate that this kind of group, absolutely unique in the traditional jazz world, is bringing something new to the table. Conviviality, youthful enthusiasm, humor, professionalism, choice of a rich repertoire, and exceptional musical individualities blended with a solid friendship, these are the ingredients of PARIS WASHBOARD.  

”The Anti-Terror Album” er på én gang et popalbum og en kunstudstilling på Museet for Samtidskunst. Musikken og udstillingen er skabt som et svar på ”KRISØV 2017” – et narrativ, som er blevet brugt som rammefortælling for beredskabets store krisestyringsøvelse, der afholdes hvert andet år. Denne episode af podcasten er en samtale med kunstneren Peter Voss-Knude om ”The Anti-Terror Album”, om hvordan Peter reagerede, da han først læste KRISØV, og hvorfor han synes det er så problematisk et verdensbillede, der fremmanes heri. Samtalen kredser også om trusselsbilleder, om frygt, om fordomme og om terrorens sprog – og undervejs høres nogle af sangene fra pladeudgivelsen “The Anti-Terror Album”. Udstillingen The Anti-Terror Album er støttet af Creative Europe og er en del af et større samarbejde mellem syv europæiske kulturinstitutioner, der under titlen 4Cs: From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture undersøger et Europa under pres på sine værdier.

We're very much at the sharp end of the season. The point at which there are no surprises, and we all know what every team is about. Right? Maybe. We take on this weekend's action and, judging by the lack of opposing views this week, we're either all *really* good, or we're all *reeeaaaaallllly* not paying attention! Only time will tell we guess...

Grace Mennonite Church Worship Message with Selenna Wolfe

Conviviality, Fulham Shore, Mothercare, Carpetright and Debenhams. The high street has not been short of profit warnings in the first few months of 2018. In this episode of IC Questions, Harriet Russell and Julia Faurschau join Megan Boxall to discuss why so many retailers have struggled this year and which might be in store for further pain. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this week's podcast digital editor Graeme Davies delves into the shenanigans at Conviviality with Harriet Russell, explores the future of the commodities sector with Alex Newman and reviews Simon Thompson's latest Bargain Shares successes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Victor Morgan, University of East Anglia

Despite his his originality and his influence as a thinker, the work of Leopold Kohr remains too little known. His philosophy in a nutshell was contained in his crucial book The Breakdown of Nations, published in 1957, where he wrote: "...there seems to be only one cause behind all forms of social misery: bigness...Whenever something is wrong, something is too big." The idea that everything has its proper size had been developed in the biological sciences by D'arcy Thompson in his 1917 book On Growth and Form, and later by J.B.S. Haldane in his essay "On Being the Right Size," but Kohr was the first, so far as I know, to apply it to the human and social worlds, creating what Ivan lllich called a "social morphology." E. F. Schumacher was Kohr's student, and brought Kohr's idea to wide attention in Small Is Beautiful (1973). Illich, likewise, acknowledged Kohr as his teacher and inspiration in books like Tools for Conviviality and others.I was lucky to meet Kohr in the summer of 1989 when he came to Toronto to lecture at a gathering of his fellow decentralists. He was already in his eightieth year and somewhat deaf, but still a lively and charming speaker and companion. Happily, he had a couple of hours free to sit down and talk with me in the Ideas studio. The following programme was broadcast shortly afterwards. A transcript can be found on the Transcripts page which I have recently added to the site...

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but liking what one has to do. — J.M. Barrie

By Sruti Bala. Pages 106-108.

In his book Deschooling Society (1971), Ivan Illich briefly alluded to a class of words "so flexible that they cease to be useful." "Like an amoeba," he said, "they fit into almost any interstice of the language." Two years later, in Tools for Conviviality, Illich wrote that language had come to "reflect the monopoly of the industrial mode of production over perception and motivation." He urged " rediscovery of language" as a personal and poetic medium. But Illich made no detailed analysis of how language had been industrialized. Then, in 1981, he became one of the first group of fellows at the new Wissenschaftkolleg, or Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin. Among his colleagues was Uwe Pörksen, a professor of German literature from the University of Freiburg. The two became friends, and one of the things they discussed was the empty word husks that Illich had first called amoebas. Pörksen renamed them plastic words and undertook a detailed study of the phenomenon, Seven years later in 1988, he published Plastikwörter: Die Sprache einer Internationalen Diktatur (The Language of an International Dictatorship.)Pörksen argued that plastic words are not merely the clichés, slogans and hackneyed expressions against which commentators like George Orwell ("Politics and the English Language") or James Thurber ("The Psychosemanticist Will See You Now, Mr. Thurber") had railed. They form a distinct class, numbering not many more than thirty or forty. The list includes obviously puffed up words like communication, sexuality, and information, but also less obtrusive terms like problem, factor, and role. Together, Pörksen says, they compose a Lego-like, modular lingo which bulldozes all the merely local and historical features of language and paves the way to the shining city of universal development. I learned of Pörksen's work from Illich, when I went to State College, Pennsylvania to record interviews with Illich in 1988. At the time, it had briefly become the playful custom in his household to ostentatiously clear one's throat whenever one found it necessary to pronounce a plastic word. I was intrigued and eager to present Pörksen's research to my Canadian radio audience, but there were several problems: his book wasn't translated, I didn't speak German, and Pörksen had only limited English. My German-born wife, Jutta Mason, solved the first problem by making a rough translation of the German text, and, in time, as we got to know each other, Uwe agreed to attempt the interview. It was recorded in Barbara Duden's house in Bremen in 1992. Jutta joined us, to boost Uwe's confidence and help with translation as needed, but, in the event, the occasion seemed to inspire a rudimentary but powerful eloquence in Uwe, and no translation was needed.The edited interview, which follows, was broadcast on Ideas early in 1993. Jutta's translation also became the basis for an English edition, pictured above, of Plastic Words. Uwe came and stayed with us for a week in Toronto, and he and Jutta and I together worked over the English text, until it was ready for publication by the Penn State Press in 1995. Good reviews never led to much of a readership for a book that I think deserves to be better known, but it remains available.

Cristina Voinea presents work at the MT16 Oxford-Bucharest Work in Progress Workshop. Speakers from Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and Bucharest University’s Research Centre in Applied Ethics (CCEA) will present work in progress on a range of themes in applied ethics. In this episode, Cristina Voinea of Bucharest University discusses 'Designing for conviviality'.

John Nunes