The Age of Systems in the Thought of Ivan Illich
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- Paperback
216 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2026
Summary
From the roads beneath our feet to the satellites overhead, from the news media that fills our minds to the social media that shapes our emotions, technology surrounds and permeates us. We are immersed in technology.
But if we are immersed in technology, can we still meaningfully speak of using it? That assumes a choice, a margin of freedom, the possibility to refuse. To use technology presumes that technology is still an instrument or tool—external to us, which we may or may not pick…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781800508873 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1800508875 |
| Author: | Jean Robert |
| Publisher: | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| Imprint: | Equinox Publishing Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 400g |
| Dimensions: | 156mm x 234mm |
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Jean Robert
Jean Robert (1937-2020) was born in a farming village in the Swiss Jura. Partly self-taught, he began university studies relatively late. At the age of twenty-three, he learned that the Ecole Polytechnique Federale in Zurich offered people without a high school diploma the opportunity to study at the university. He was chosen, along with two others, from among the twenty candidates who had applied for the exam. Having graduated in architecture, he began working as an architect in the town of Neuchatel.
One day, by pure chance, he read an article about CIDOC, the Intercultural Documentation Center of Cuernavaca in Mexico, and about the strange character who was its director: Ivan Illich. That article came to mind years later, when he moved to Mexico with his Mexican wife, Sylvia. With a scholarship, she was the one who began attending CIDOC. He became a regular visitor, soon establishing a friendship and intellectual collaboration with Illich that was destined to last a lifetime.
Fluent in many languages and comfortable in diverse cultural settings, Jean Robert has authored numerous books and articles on a vast array of subjects, ranging from architecture to Zapatista politics.
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