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ÉNERGIE ET ÉQUITÉ
Cet ouvrage d’Ivan Illich s’inscrit dans la publication successive de quatre textes : "Une société sans école",...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[For Firefly Frequencies, film sound engineer Thomas Fourel reads the French version of Ivan Illich's Energie et équité.<br /><br />ÉNERGIE ET ÉQUITÉ<br />Cet ouvrage d’Ivan Illich s’inscrit dans la publication successive de quatre textes : "Une société sans école", "Énergie et équité", "La Convivialité" et "Némésis médicale". <br />Illich relève que, passé certains seuils, la production de services devient aussi destructrice de la culture que la production de biens matériels l’est de la nature.<br />Dans "Énergie et équité", Illich se livre à une analyse des transports motorisés comme d’un service qui, loin de se substituer à la consommation de marchandises, provoque au contraire une dépendance accrue à leur égard et n’apparaît en réalité que comme un songe creux, une aporie, un sac de néant. Dans ce texte visionnaire il établit les fondements de ce que sera la pensée écologique moderne.<br />Penseur de l’écologie politique, Ivan Illich met en garde ses contemporains contre la crise de l’énergie qui les menace et contre les dérives de la productivité galopante, incontrôlable et dévastatrice pour les structures sociales. Reproduit à l’échelle planétaire, ce modèle énergivore constitue une spirale infernale et aliénante tant sur le plan social que sur le plan environnemental.<br /><br />This work is the second of a series of four critical texts written by Ivan Illich that also includes Deschooling Society, Tools for Conviviality and Medical Nemesis. In these texts Illich notes how, beyond certain thresholds, the production of services becomes as destructive of culture as the production of material goods is of nature.<br />In Energy and Equity, Illich analyzes motorized transport as a service which, far from replacing the consumption of goods, on the contrary causes an increased dependence on them and in reality appears as a hollow dream, an aporia, a bag of nothingness. In this visionary text, he establishes the foundations of what will come to constitute a part of modern ecological thought.<br />A philosopher of political ecology, Ivan Illich warns his contemporaries about the energy crisis that threatens them and against the accelerating uncontrolled productivity that will prove devastating for social structures. Reproduced on a planetary scale, this energy-guzzling model constitutes an infernal and alienating spiral on both the social and environmental levels. <br /><br /><br />Voice: Thomas Fourel<br />Mix: Graeme Thomson]]></itunes:summary><itunes:category text="Education"/><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><itunes:type>episodic</itunes:type><item><title>E10 - Sous-équipement, sur-développement et maturité technique</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/e10-sous-equipement-sur-developpement-et-maturite-technique--53543850</link><description><![CDATA[In this final episode of Thomas Fourel's reading of Ivan Illich's classic, Illich makes the crucial distinction between the technical maturity a society needs to produce fair and equal optimization of speed and efficiency and the overdevelopment that leads to excessive consumption and inequality.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/53543850</guid><pubDate>Sat, 15 Apr 2023 10:43:00 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/53543850/energie_et_equite_pt_10.mp3" length="17152462" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>firefly frequencies</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>In this final episode of Thomas Fourel's reading of Ivan Illich's classic, Illich makes the crucial distinction between the technical maturity a society needs to produce fair and equal optimization of speed and efficiency and the overdevelopment that...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[In this final episode of Thomas Fourel's reading of Ivan Illich's classic, Illich makes the crucial distinction between the technical maturity a society needs to produce fair and equal optimization of speed and efficiency and the overdevelopment that leads to excessive consumption and inequality.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>715</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/5d661ee99f0dc1d59768f7a1f63fab4d.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>E09 - 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Le prix du temps</title><link>https://www.spreaker.com/episode/e04-le-prix-du-temps--46022681</link><description><![CDATA[Thomas Fourel continues his reading of Illich's text, turning to the question of inequalities of speed among social classes in car-driven societies.]]></description><guid isPermaLink="false">https://api.spreaker.com/episode/46022681</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2021 10:04:11 +0000</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.spreaker.com/download/episode/46022681/energie_et_equite_pt_4.mp3" length="13988929" type="audio/mpeg"/><itunes:author>firefly frequencies</itunes:author><itunes:subtitle>Thomas Fourel continues his reading of Illich's text, turning to the question of inequalities of speed among social classes in car-driven societies.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Thomas Fourel continues his reading of Illich's text, turning to the question of inequalities of speed among social classes in car-driven societies.]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>583</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/5d661ee99f0dc1d59768f7a1f63fab4d.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item><item><title>E03 - 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... "Chaque société doit fixer le degré d’injustice, de destruction, et d’endoctrinement que ses membres sont prêts à accepter pour le plaisir d’idolâtrer les...</itunes:subtitle><itunes:summary><![CDATA[Thomas Fourel reads chapter 1 of Ivan Illich's seminal text, "La crise de l'énérgie".<br /><br />... "Chaque société doit fixer le degré d’injustice, de destruction, et d’endoctrinement que ses membres sont prêts à accepter pour le plaisir d’idolâtrer les machines puissantes et de se plier docilement aux injonctions des experts."<br /><br />SEE ENGLISH VERSION<br /><a href="http://www.ecotopia.com/webpress/energyequity/energy_and_equity.txt" rel="noopener">http://www.ecotopia.com/webpress/energyequity/energy_and_equity.txt</a>]]></itunes:summary><itunes:duration>1096</itunes:duration><itunes:explicit>clean</itunes:explicit><itunes:image href="https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/5d661ee99f0dc1d59768f7a1f63fab4d.jpg"/><itunes:episodeType>full</itunes:episodeType></item></channel></rss>
