On: Ivan Illich’s radical critique of modern certitude...

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Mumford and Postman also expand that list.

Of Illich I've only fully read "Tools for Conviviality", which I'd say is a manifesto for Humane Technology of a kind.

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Thank you for the recs ! Would you have one book per author to rec ?

And indeed Illich is not anti-tech, he's not a luddite

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For Lewis Mumford [0] maybe "Myth of the Machine" - with his concept of "megatechnics" - is more readable than the earlier "Technics and Civilisation", but his earlier insights seem ever more relevant.

For Neil Postman [1] the standard reader is "Technopoly", but for me "Amusing Ourselves to Death" is a real treat. It was literally a description of social media and modern "performance politics" 40 years too early.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Mumford

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Postman

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Luddites were not anti-tech, you're thinking of the Amish