Tag Archives: Ivan Illich

Giorgio Agamben: The snail’s shell

Posted on May 28, 2024 by Julius Gavroche

A snail, after adding a number of widening rings to the delicate structure of its shell, suddenly brings its accustomed building activities to a stop. A single additional ring would increase the size of the shell sixteen times. Instead of … Continue reading →

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Reading the coronavirus with Ivan Illich

Posted on April 12, 2020 by Julius Gavroche

Autonomies welcomes a text generously shared by David Cayley (www.davidcayley.com), Canadian writer and radio host (Toronto), and author for many years of the Ideas program for the CBC Radio programme “Ideas”. Questions about the current pandemic from the point of … Continue reading →

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