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Tools for Conviviality
Illich, Ivan. Tools for Conviviality. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.
Why this matters here
Illich's critique of tools and institutions distinguishes arrangements that support human agency from ones that dominate it. The chapter invokes his argument when useful systems become difficult to question.
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