In the Mirror of the Past↗
by Ivan Illich
18 essays on education, silence, technology, and the body (1978-1990)
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The De-linking of Peace and Development
16 minOpening address on the occasion of the first meeting of the Asian Peace Research Association. Yokohama, 1st December 1980 Professor Yoshikazu Sakamoto.
The Right to Dignified Silence
6 minAddress to ‘People’s Forum: Hope’ Tokyo, 23rd April 1982 Last winter, visitors to a certain city in Germany witnessed a quite unusual scene.
I Too Have Decided to Keep Silent
1 minRead and distributed at the 20th Evangelischer Kirchentag Hanover, 9th June 1983 I, too, have decided to keep silent because I shall not be drawn into any discussion about genocide; because nuclear...
Alternatives to Economics: Toward a History of Waste
17 minAddress to the annual Human Economy Session at the Eastern Economics Association Conference Boston, 11th March 1988 My theme is the blessings which we still enjoy, in spite of economic growth; the...
Silence is a Commons
10 minOpening remarks at the ‘Asahi Symposium: Science and Man — The Computer-Managed Society’ Tokyo, 21st March 1982 Minna-san, gladly I accept the honor of addressing this forum on Science and Man.
Dwelling
14 minAddress to the Royal Institute of British Architects York, U.K., July 1984. (Celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Royal Institute of British Architects) To dwell is human.
The Message of Bapu's Hut
6 minInaugural Speech Sevagram Ashram Pratishthan Sevagram, Wardha.
Disvalue
16 minProfessor Tamanoy’s Forum # This first public meeting of the Japanese Entropy Society provides us with an occasion to commemorate Professor Joshiro Tamanoy.
The Three Dimensions of Public Option
26 minKeynote Speech at the 16th General Assembly of the Society for International Development Colombo, Sri Lanka, 15th August 1979 Where sixteen years of your war against subsistence have led can best be...
The Educational Sphere
10 minFragment from notes for a lecture at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York.
The History of Homo Educandus
7 minOpening Speech at the Plenum of the 5th World Congress of the World Council of Comparative Education Societies Sorbonne, Paris, July 1984 Monsieur Debeauvais, thank you for the invitation to address...
Taught Mother Tongue
34 minPrepared for a meeting on ‘The Need for New Terminology to deal with “Mother Tongues”’, held at the Central Institute of Indian Languages. The lecture was given to honor Prof. D.P.
A Plea for Research on Lay Literacy
33 minSpecial Guest Lecture at the American Education Research Association General Assembly San Francisco, August 1986 By lay literacy I mean a symbolic fallout from the use of the alphabet in Western...
Mnemosyne: The Mold of Memory
30 min‘The Object of Objects: An Elegy for the Anchored Text’.
Computer Literacy and the Cybernetic Dream
8 minLecture given at the Second National Science, Technology and Society Conference on ‘Technological Literacy’ organized by Science through Science, Technology and Society project of Pennsylvania State...
Twelve Years after Medical Nemesis: A Plea for Body History
10 minConsultation on ‘Health and Healing in America’ Pennsylvania State University, January 1985 Twelve years ago I wrote Medical Nemesis .
The Institutional Construction of a New Fetish: Human Life
18 minPresented as a ‘Planning Event’ of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Chicago, 29th March, 1989 Ladies and Gentlemen.
Medical Ethics: A Call to De-bunk Bio-ethics
1 minDrafted with Dr Robert Mendelsohn for discussion at the School of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, 20th November 1987 Medical ethics is an oxymoron, bringing to mind safe sex, nuclear...