Some hope #left? Which left?
“[…] Cayley’s perspectivist interpretation of Illich shows its main weakness. Since Cayley reads #Illich from the 1990s backwards, he emphasizes the later disillusioned Illich over the more optimistic Illich from the 1970s […]
The optimistic Illich of the 1970s seems more effective. In those years, Illich still believed that not yet industrialized popular cultures and digital technologies could foster new commons. He mentions, for instance, the potential of learning webs [Deschooling, ch 6] as an alternative to formal schooling. People with similar interests could – over the computer, for example – establish study groups for independent research.”
https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/19227_ivan-illich-an-intellectual-biography-by-david-cayley-reviewed-by-tim-christiaens/
Isn’t that #peer2peer learning? -> Peer-to-Peer: A Commons Manifesto, Michel Bauwens, Vasilis Kostakis, Alex Pazaitis
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2019-05-06/peer-to-peer-a-commons-manifesto/
What about AI for teaching? -> Deschooling Virtuality 2.0, Petar Jandrić
https://concept.lib.ed.ac.uk/Concept/article/view/2408
The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh, Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/econopocalypse