Difference between revisions of "Michael's Projects"

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More broadly, I wanted to explore the extent to which [http://conviviality.ouvaton.org/article.php3?id_article=21 social systems] and [http://conviviality.ouvaton.org/article.php3?id_article=20 idea systems] can be considered "tools," and how they could be made more "convivial" in Illich's sense.
 
More broadly, I wanted to explore the extent to which [http://conviviality.ouvaton.org/article.php3?id_article=21 social systems] and [http://conviviality.ouvaton.org/article.php3?id_article=20 idea systems] can be considered "tools," and how they could be made more "convivial" in Illich's sense.
  
However, my projects in the field of Convivial Tools all got bogged down in the mechanics of fleshing out the several websites that I created on the subject. My attention is now focused instead on the personal discovery of Internet tools. As a friend observed recently, I was diverted from my project of making reparable washing machines to a project of making easily reparable machines for the processing of information flows.
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However, my projects in the field of Convivial Tools got bogged down in the mechanics of fleshing out the several websites that I created on the subject. My attention is now focused instead on the personal discovery of Internet tools. As a friend observed recently, I was diverted from my project of making reparable washing machines to a project of making easily reparable machines for the processing of information flows.
  
 
==Cooperative Social Network==
 
==Cooperative Social Network==

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