{"id":3808,"date":"2010-01-28T01:35:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T23:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/?p=3808"},"modified":"2010-02-01T14:26:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T12:26:08","slug":"tools-for-conviviality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/texts\/tools-for-conviviality","title":{"rendered":"Tools for conviviality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the train back from <a href=\"http:\/\/nm.merz-akademie.de\">Stuttgart<\/a>, I read <em><a href=\"http:\/\/clevercycles.com\/tools_for_conviviality\/\">Tools for Conviviality<\/a><\/em>,  a pamphlet by social philosopher Ivan Ilich (1973). A &#8216;convivial society&#8217;, he argues, is a society in which everyone can act autonomously, and this can be achieved through the design and use of &#8216;convivial tools&#8217;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>People feel joy, as opposed to mere pleasure, to the extent that their activities are creative; while the growth of tools beyond a certain point increases reglementation, dependence, and impotence. I use the term &#8220;tool&#8221; broadly enough to include not only simple hardware such as drills, pots, syringes, brooms, building elements, or motors, and not just large machines like cars or power stations; I also include among tools productive institutions such as factories that produce tangible commodities such as corn flakes or electric current, and productive systems for intangible commodities such a those which produce &#8220;education,&#8221; &#8220;health,&#8221; &#8220;knowledge&#8221; or &#8220;decisions.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the train back from Stuttgart, I read Tools for Conviviality, a pamphlet by social philosopher Ivan Ilich (1973). A &#8216;convivial society&#8217;, he argues, is a society in which everyone can act autonomously, and this can be achieved through the design and use of &#8216;convivial tools&#8217;: People feel joy, as opposed to mere pleasure, to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65],"tags":[169,20,312],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3808"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3880,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions\/3880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ospublish.constantvzw.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}