Disembodiment is reaching a second level which I can only c… - Ivan Illich

" "
Disembodiment is reaching a second level which I can only call algorithmization or mathematization. People annihilate their own sensual nature by projecting themselves into abstracta, into abstract notions. And this renunciation of intimate uniqueness through the introjection and self-ascription of statistical entities is being cultivated with extraordinary intensity by the way in which we live. This has to be explored. The consequence is an insensibility not only to myself but to you.

Ivan Illich

Sources available for members. Sign up free to see where this quote comes from

English

Collect this quote

About Ivan Illich

Ivan Illich (4 September 1926 – 2 December 2002) was an Austrian-born Christian anarchist, author, polymath, and polemicist.

Biography information from Wikiquote

Also Known As

Alternative Names: Ivan D. Illich • Ivan Dominic Illich

All quotes from Ivan Illich Similar Quotes by other Originators

Originators like Ivan Illich:

Lewis Mumford Carroll Quigley Peter Kropotkin Paul Goodman John R. Saul

Additional quotes by Ivan Illich

If the greatest fruit of man’s labor should be the education he receives from it and the opportunity which work gives him to initiate the education of others, then the alienation of modern society in a pedagogical sense is even worse than its economic alienation.

A society dedicated to the protection of equally distributed, modern and effective tools for the exercise of productive liberties cannot come into existence unless the commodities and resources on which the exercise of those liberties is based are equally distributed to all.

Rodeado por herramientas todopoderosas, el hombre queda reducido a ser instrumento de sus instrumentos.

Disembodiment is reaching a second level which I can only call algorithmization or mathematization. People annihilate their own sensual nature by pro… - Ivan Illich

About Ivan Illich

Also Known As

Additional quotes by Ivan Illich