Walter Logeman: Journal
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Curriculum Vitae Walter Logeman
“I did some primary school teaching in the sixties. In 1974 I founded ”Four Avenues” a state funded secondary school based on the principles of Ivan Illich. Taught in the school for four years.”
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“Illich’s radical anarchist views first became widely known through a set of four books published during the early: Deschooling Society (1971), Tools for Conviviality (1973), Energy and Equity (1974) , and Medical Nemesis (1976). Tools is the most general statement of Illich’s ideas. The other three volumes expand on examples sketched there in order to critique what he calls “radical monopolies” and “counter productivity” in the technologies of education, energy consumption, and medical treatment. This critique applies equally to both the so-called “developed” and the “developing” worlds, but in different ways to each.”
Illich came to mind during these last few months while I have been learning GNU/Linux (I hate being this purist using this name for it, but I think the underlying GNU ideas and WORK are vital
The reason is that i have this memory from the seventies of Illich philosophy which advocated tools that people could fix. Car engines that one could get into, even valve radios because they were modular. Well, did it work for technology in the world of matter? Perhaps the success of the PC is an example. But in the world of software it is *imperative* to keep access open. When one person fixes something it can be available to all, instantly. Making that impossible is so wrong. It is worse than dumping food while people are starving… information is of a higher order and knowledge could lead to a better world. Dumbing down the world for profit – that is not only MS but all closed software projects. How can this be prevented?
I’d like to revisit Illich on this…
Design for Community: About [dead Tuesday, 9 March, 2010]
Welcome to Design for Community! “If you’re not sure what it is you’re looking at, here’s the basic idea: Design for Community is a book, an attitude, and, hopefully, a community.”
Design for Community by Derek Powazek
There is also a useful weblog to link to from here.
Daypop – a current events/weblog/news search engine Search 7000 News Sites and Weblogs for Current Events and Breaking News
Google Web APIs – Home Develop Your Own Applications Using Google
It will be interesting to see what happens here. Any one seen an application?
Dave Winer on the Google APIs
Techne & Psyche Techne & Psyche
perspectives on technoscience and the cultural psyche
Dolores Brien’s very psybernet related weblog. One I’ll be watching a lot. Dolores has a real interest and insight into the psyche and the Net.
See also:
An interview with Stephen L. Talbott. The Machine in the Ghost.
Archetypes of the Internet by Dolores Brien.
Internet Magazine – News/Advice/Reviews/ISPs/Hosting
Kim Gilmour asks its busy 29-year-old co-founder and CEO Evan Williams about how weblogs have changed the Web
EVHEAD.. (Unsafe? and redirects to https://ev.medium.com/). Updated.
What’s this?
“This is the personal web site of Evan Williams, president/CEO of Pyra Labs, the creators and operators of Blogger, a web application used to publish, among other things, sites like this (so, you see, this is work!). Here, I write about the Internet, business, blogs, San Francisco, my life, and various other things as they occur to me.”
Thursday, 06 October 2022 Update
updated link above old one dead
https://ev.medium.com/
Psychotherapy: Why some people have abandoned it, more from Cliff Bostock:
So, in soulwork, our task is to imagine our way to truth, our calling in the world. The work does not require artistry, only the willingness to engage in the imaginal. The psyche naturally communicates metaphorically and in images (thus the work is often called “psychopoetics”). The imagination places us in the realm of “the invisibles,” to use Hillman’s term, or in mundus imaginalis, to use Henry Corbin’s term. This is the place where our destiny reveals itself — between the literal and the wholly imaginary. In this place, so unfamiliar to most people in our society — and even scorned by much psychology — life speaks clearly to us through the autonomous voice of personified soul.
