Silent Blocks (Special edition with print)
Myr Muratet
Silent Blocks (Special edition with print)
Photographs: Myr Muratet
Text: David Cayley
Publisher: Nouveau Palais
96 pages
Year: 2021
Price: 60 €
Comments: Hardcover, 27 x 16,5 cm. With the text "Questions About the Current Pandemic From the Point of View of Ivan Illich" by the Canadian science journalist David Cayley. Text in French and English. Signed and numbered copy of 60 with a color print that can be choose among 6 different prints in an edition of 10 each.
April 8, 2020 (extrait)
Last week I began an essay on the current pandemic in which I tried to address what I take to be the central question that it raises: Is the massive and costly effort to contain and limit the harm that the virus will do the only choice we have? Is it no more than an obvious and unavoidable exercise of prudence undertaken to protect the most vulnerable? Or is it a disastrous effort to maintain control of what is obviously out of control, an effort which will compound the damage being done by the disease with new troubles that will reverberate far into the future? I hadn’t been writing for long before I began to realize that many of the assumptions I was making were quite remote from those being expressed all around me. These assumptions had mainly come, I reflected, from my prolonged conversation with the work of Ivan Illich. What this suggested was that, before I could speak intelligibly about our present circumstances, I would first have to sketch the attitude towards health, medicine and well-being that Illich developed over a lifetime of reflection on these themes. Accordingly, in what follows, I will start with a brief account of the evolution of Illich’s critique of bio-medicine and then try to answer the questions I just posed in this light..
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