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DAVID CAYLEY: ON THE RADICAL IDEAS OF IVAN ILLICH
David Cayley is a broadcaster and author and perhaps the ‘godfather of podcasting’. He is best know known for documenting the philosophy of great thinkers of the 20th century, including Ivan Illich, Northrop Frye, George Grant, and Rene Girard. He has recently written a fantastic biography of Ivan Illich (Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey), which also documents his own adventure with ideas. We had a wonderful and deep conversation, about Ilich and his radical ideas. Will they become audible to us in the 21st Century?
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EXISTIERT GOTT?
Viele Menschen halten diese Frage für fast lächerlich einfach und damit auch für provokativ und konfrontativ. Das Problem ist jedoch, dass eine entscheidende und polarisierende Uneinigkeit über die Antwort bestehen bleibt. Einige sagen, die Antwort auf diese einfache Frage sei offensichtlich ein klares Nein: Natürlich gibt es keinen Gott! Alles Sprechen über einen Gott ist Ausdruck eines hartnäckigen Aberglaubens, der seit den Regentänzen der ersten Schamanen durch die gesamte bekannte Geschichte an der Menschheit haften geblieben ist. Ein Aberglaube, der aller Wahrscheinlichkeit nach dahinschwinden und absterben wird, in dem Maß, wie unser Wissen über die Natur der Physik auf der Makro- und der Mikroebene ausreichend anwachsen wird, dass wir fähig werden, die vielen törichten Vorstellungen von Religion zu widerlegen, und zu dokumentieren, wie sie mit verschiedenen soziokulturellen Bedingungen verbunden sind.
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THE PARALLAX VIEW: GIMME SOME SPICE
We are talking about the new DUNE movie, it´s deep mythology, Lynch´s twisted mind, Jung vs Freud, Indra´s fractal net, and the spice, that elevates life out up the mud and into the sacred.
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IVAN ILLICH'S HOUR OF LEGIBILIT
The Italian philosopher Gordio Abamben said recently that Ivan Illich has arrived at his ‘hour of legibility.’ In other words, the radical propositions of Ilich—that we need to ‘deschool society’ for instance, or that the present medical paradigm has become a danger to people’s health, make more sense today than they did in the 1960’s when Illich was thought of a ‘the new Karl Marx’ or a maverick at the very least.
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GLENN GREENWALD ABOUT AUTHORETAREAN MEDIA
Journalism has devolved from being a truth-tracking enterprise into a mechanism of behavioral control by powerful elites. Call that nexus of political elites and journalism the Authoritarian Media. The trouble is, those elites didn’t plan on so many people losing faith so quickly. That loss of faith is a good thing up to a point, but we still need a better way to make sense of the world.
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UNREGISTERED PODCAST WITH JAMES LINDSAY
Great podcast between Thaddeus Russell and James Lindsay about the 'sowjetization' of the US, Marcuse, Biopolitcs. Highly recommended...
About Parallax
Parallax is a European online media platform offering constructive and fresh perspectives for the post-post modern age. We publish essays and podcasts, webinars and lectures, and are a hub for original and heterodox thinking.
The word ‘parallax’ stems from the old greek παράλλαξις parállaxis, which means to shift the viewpoint of the observer. The name suggests psychoactive and alternative sense-making, as opposed to mainstream narratives and ideologies.
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