Research
Watersheds
Illich’s two turning points: where a tool starts to work, and where it starts to work against its purpose.
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What is “counterfoil research?”
Ivan Illich used this phrase in four books between 1971 and 1974 but never fully defined it. Read together with the questions this site starts from, Illich’s remarks about counterfoil research concern the public study of how tools and technological…