/lit/ - Literature

ITT: Authors you have appreciated a lot more after seeing/listening to them (through lectures and interviews and whatnot) than after directly reading them.
I was amazed at how radiantly enthusiastic Ivan Illich was while explaining his worldview on this interview despite the rather complex ideas he was unraveling. He has the kind of earnest smile that only a well meaning soul could have. Reminded me of John Maus in a way. It pops up into my head every once in a while, and for good reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_ByKXCr9TA

>The French Revolution gave birth to two great myths: one, that physicians could replace the clergy; the other, that with political change society would return to a state of original health. Sickness became a public affair. In the name of progress, it has now ceased to be the concern of those who are ill.

More woke chud authors like Byung-Chul Han? It looks like they're the ones who actually grasp something about modernity

Anyone here read Illich? Feels like he's having a bit of a mini-renaissance lately. Wondering which book to start with.

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>Cancer treatments are a subjugation of freedom
*dies*
Agamben was lucky covid was a remixed flu

What does /lit/ think of Ivan Illich? Is he based or just the equivalent of Jordan Peterson few generations back?

mfw reading this thread after reading Deschooling society

I am more leftist than marxists and anarchists