A periodical https://conspiratio.goliard.xyz/ 2026-08-06T07:55:21+00:00 https://conspiratio.goliard.xyz/ https://conspiratio.goliard.xyz/_media/wiki:dokuwiki.svg text/html 2026-07-18T13:53:17+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://conspiratio.goliard.xyz/periodicals:05:bonato?rev=1784382797&do=diff Jet "50 original drawings by Ernesto Bonato made especially for Conspiratio 5. 26.5 x 33 cm. 2023 Pictures by André Barone" ------- The paintbrush is one of the oldest tools produced by human culture and has changed little over time in its structure and concept. Essentially, this structure boils down to a bundle of animal or vegetable bristles, tied to a handle (commonly made of wood, but occasionally made of bone) by a ring or bandage made of metal or other material (ferrule). The functio… text/html 2026-07-14T22:33:02+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://conspiratio.goliard.xyz/periodicals:05:cayley?rev=1784068382&do=diff On walking away from Christianity: a reply to Carl Mitcham by David Cayley ---------- In the juvescence of the year Came Christ the tiger…Us he devours… After such knowledge, what forgiveness? -T.S. Eliot, Gerontion In the Spring 2023 issue of [].-[])--[][][]-)-.!!-[] text/html 2026-07-18T13:57:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://conspiratio.goliard.xyz/periodicals:05:delvinco?rev=1784383079&do=diff A disciplined glance at tools by Attilio del Vinco Translation to English by Neto Leão Pictures by Attilio del Vinco e Neto Leao ---------- Gallery of images [Array][Array][Array][Array][Array] Sometimes, objects fallen out of daily use come into our hands. We hold on to them weighed by the experience of them—both past and yet close at hand. Their silent solidity speaks to us of the lives we once lived and the indispensable premise for our lives today. These objects are icons. Hence, to han… text/html 2026-07-16T09:58:31+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://conspiratio.goliard.xyz/periodicals:05:editorial?rev=1784195911&do=diff Editor’s letter This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Tools for Conviviality. In that pamphlet, Illich theorized that technology goes through two phases or, in his word, watersheds.The first watershed is crossed when an instrument becomes effective in realizing the purpose for which it is designed. Thomas Edison said he failed thousands of times before inventing a light bulb that worked. Illich’s enduring contribution remains his specification of the perverse effects when instruments cros… text/html 2026-07-15T14:40:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://conspiratio.goliard.xyz/periodicals:05:farage?rev=1784126415&do=diff Swiped right into the system.  by Samar Farage Long before ChatGPT, Ivan Illich issued a warning: "[I] foresee that machines which ape people are tending to encroach on every aspect of people’s lives, and that such machines force people to behave like machines. The new electronic devices do indeed have the power to force people to ‘communicate’ with them and each other on the terms of the machine. Whatever structurally does not fit the logic of machines is effectively filtered from a culture… text/html 2026-07-15T22:18:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://conspiratio.goliard.xyz/periodicals:05:ferraris?rev=1784153938&do=diff Review of: The age of systems in Illich’s later thinking, by Jean Robert by Diego Ferraris Translated by Sara Tommasina Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. Epicurus. text/html 2026-07-17T22:34:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://conspiratio.goliard.xyz/periodicals:05:index?rev=1784327697&do=diff Volume 5 - Spring 2023 Table of contents * Editor’s letter [↓] Essays * On Walking Away from Christianity: A Reply to Carl Mitcham by David Cayley [↓] Thematic Articles: 50 Years after Tools for Conviviality * Tools for Conviviality: Argument, Insight, Influence by Carl Mitcham [↓] * Postscript: "Tools for Conviviality: Argument, Insight, Influence" Three Decades Later by Carl Mitcham [↓] * Introduction to The Age of Systems in Illich’s Later Thinking by Jean Robert [↓] * Birth and E… text/html 2026-07-15T14:26:38+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://conspiratio.goliard.xyz/periodicals:05:labanca?rev=1784125598&do=diff Imitation Games: when who you are is reduced to what you do. by Nicola Labanca In 1950, Alan Turing devised what he called an imitation game to test if a computer could imitate a human. The imitation game has since come to be called the Turing Test and is understood as a test of whether a human being asking questions can tell the difference between answers received from a computer and a human.___)..[].[]......#_.......-. text/html 2026-07-15T14:12:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://conspiratio.goliard.xyz/periodicals:05:leao?rev=1784124749&do=diff Imagination lost: crossing the third watershed. by Neto Leão Preamble Ivan Illich is a classic. We often approach great thinkers of the past from two opposite yet related roads: assuming they are either determined by their historical period and therefore outdated, or as timeless geniuses. Both approaches, however, are blind to what are a classic and an oeuvre. A classic has something to always tell us because they respond to fundamental questions. A classic also teaches coming generations to … text/html 2026-07-15T14:46:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://conspiratio.goliard.xyz/periodicals:05:mesly?rev=1784126778&do=diff A Theory of Technique by Philippe Mesly In 1973, Ivan Illich stated that our industrial society had only two paths ahead of it: “Faced with these impending disasters, society can stand in wait of survival within limits set and enforced by bureaucratic dictatorship. Or it can engage in a political process by the use of legal and political procedures.”.......!. text/html 2026-07-19T09:38:51+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://conspiratio.goliard.xyz/periodicals:05:mitcham?rev=1784453931&do=diff Tools for Conviviality: Argument, Insight, Influence* by Carl Mitcham (*) Paul T. Durbin (ed.), Europe, America, and Technology: Philosophical Perspectives, 17-56. © 1991 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in the Netherlands. ---------- Ivan Illich is the author of more than ten books during the last twenty years published in over a dozen languages. In their diversity these works can appear to defy thematic unity. Their focus seems variously to be pastoral theology, educa-tion, development … text/html 2026-07-14T22:33:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://conspiratio.goliard.xyz/periodicals:05:mitcham02?rev=1784068420&do=diff Postscript: "Tools for Conviviality : Argument, Insight, Influence" Three Decades Later by Carl Mitcham ---------- Of Ivan Illich’s many books, Tools for Conviviality is the most insightful and concise presentation of what may be called his political philosophy of technology. This paper was originally prepared for a symposium celebrating Illich’s 65th birthday and 5th year as visiting professor in the Pennsylvania State University Science, Technology, and Society Program. The symposium was in… text/html 2026-07-15T21:55:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://conspiratio.goliard.xyz/periodicals:05:morelli?rev=1784152529&do=diff Renewing La Convivialité, a half century later by Giovanna Morelli Forgetting We seem to have forgotten the questions raised fifty years ago by Ivan Illich in La Convivialité. Yet, we face them again today with a renewed sense of urgency. To adequately confront the new provocations to which humanity itself is now subjected, we need an anthropology that clearly traces the ...!!.[].[] text/html 2026-07-15T14:09:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://conspiratio.goliard.xyz/periodicals:05:riganelli?rev=1784124585&do=diff Birth and exploitation of common goods in Perugia in the Middle Ages: the case of the "*comunantia fructus water lacus*", of the community of the "Chiugi Perugino" and of the "pedate del lago" by Giovanni Riganelli The issues relating to the birth, management, and exploitation of common goods held by rural communities or cities, are remarkably complex. And this is true even if the period of investigation is limited, as in this case, to only the Middle Ages. Giuseppe Vittorio Parigino makes cle… text/html 2026-07-15T13:46:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://conspiratio.goliard.xyz/periodicals:05:robert?rev=1784123219&do=diff Introduction to *The age of systems in Illich’s later thinking* * by Jean Robert ---------- (*) This introduction is to Jean Robert’s Italian book titled L’età dei sistemi nel pensiero dell’ultimo Illich, (Hermatena, Bolonia, Italy 2019). It outlines the book for which I’m hoping to find an English language publisher. The translation is by Edoardo McKenna (Ed.). .)[]! text/html 2026-07-15T22:12:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://conspiratio.goliard.xyz/periodicals:05:samuel?rev=1784153557&do=diff Books Reviewed: Chris Bateman, The Virtuous Cyborg, (London: Squint Books, 2018\) Jonathan Crary, *Scorched Earth: beyond the digital age to the post-capitalist world* (New York: Verso Books, 2022). Review by Sajay Samuel Chris Bateman says Illich’s [][] text/html 2026-07-15T22:06:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://conspiratio.goliard.xyz/periodicals:05:zhu?rev=1784153215&do=diff The Language of Public Goods* by Henry Zhu *Originally published online in 2021 at <https://gitcoin.co/blog/seeking-a-new-kind-of-public-good> Is language itself a public good? We can’t easily exclude anyone from learning or communicating in one. Being able to speak a language doesn’t limit anyone else’s access to it; the whole purpose of it is to speak with others. Nor can we really stop the creation of new slang, dialects, or new languages. We might even say that this innate freedom to proc…