# Number 1 - Fall 2021
==== Table of contents ====
* [[editorial|Editor’s letter]]
=== Essays on Questions concerning ‘Life’ ===
* *[[cayley|Questions about the current pandemic from the point of view of Ivan Illich]]* by David Cayley
* *[[palaver|It doesn’t work without fear]]* by Wolfgang Palaver42
* *[[dupuy|Ivan Illich’s true legacy: on the so-called ‘sacralization of life’]]* by Jean-Pierre Dupuy
* *[[cayley2|Concerning life: an open letter to Jean Pierre Dupuy and Wolfgang Palaver]]* by David Cayley
=== Thematic Articles on Reading Ivan Illich ===
* *[[hoinacki|Reading Ivan Illich]]* by Lee Hoinacki
* *[[leao|How to read Ivan Illich]]* by Neto Leão
* *[[arney|IVAN: “In book after book...” (as promised)]]* by Bill Arney
* *[[robert|The strangeness of the obvious]]* by Jean Robert
* *[[farage|Remembering Illich’s Convivium]] by Samar Farage
=== Reviews ===
* *[[samuel|Review of "Prisoners of Addiction and Envy"]]* by Sajay Samuel
=== Translations ===
* *The Need for a Common Roof (the social control of technology)* by Valentina Borremans and Ivan Illich
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**This inaugural issue leads with a series of essays on an issue of some moment — the pandemic. On Reading Ivan Illich is the theme for this inaugural issue and informs the choice of the articles.**
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==== Editorial note ====
It was in a modest apartment in Fiesole which over looks the city of Florence, nestled in the valley below that, in early June 2001, a few friends, a generation younger than Ivan Illich, were discussing, in his presence, what might consti tute the key words to his thought. Unsurprisingly, he did not have much to say. But as the conversation proceeded, it be came increasingly clear to us that a more sustained effort was needed to both see the building blocks and to uncover the foundations of his thought. It was in the context of that lon ger term project that I first heard the phrase ‘Thinking after Illich’ pronounced by Silja Samerski. She noted that the Ger man nach has the same two senses that ‘after’ has in English. Nach not only means positional or temporal succession, as in B which comes after A or tomorrow which follows today. It also means to follow in the footsteps of, to mimic the style of, to think in the wake of. **[[editorial|Continue reading >]]**
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