Difference between revisions of "Michael's Projects"

From Internet Database
Jump to: navigation, search
Line 11: Line 11:
 
More broadly, I wanted to explore the extent to which [http://conviviality.ouvaton.org/article.php3?id_article=20 idea systems] and [http://conviviality.ouvaton.org/article.php3?id_article=21 social 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=20 idea systems] and [http://conviviality.ouvaton.org/article.php3?id_article=21 social 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 got bogged down in the details of fleshing out the several websites that I created on the subject. My attention is now focused instead on the exploration of Internet as a tool. 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.
+
However, my projects in the field of Convivial Tools got bogged down in the details of fleshing out the several websites that I created on the subject. My attention is now focused instead on the exploration of Internet as a tool. As a friend observed recently, I've beeb 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==

Revision as of 11:34, 6 December 2009