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Volume 7 - Fall 2025 Table of contents * Editor’s letter [↓] Essays * Savonarola: Democracy, Tyranny, Prophecy. Conference about Girolamo Savonarola. Pistoia, 23/24 May 1997 by Ivan Illich [↓] * Beneath Savonarola’s Nose: Ivan Illich’s Prophetic Gaze against the Shadow of the Future by Leonardo Christopher Eck Glenewinkel [↓] * Freed from Religion? by Samuel Sonderhoff [↓] * The Way of Sense through Religion, Faith, Philosophy by Giovanna Morelli [↓] * Theology's Heartbeat by Wes Avram…

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About Conspiratio Conspiratio is an independent, annual periodical devoted to what Ivan Illich called “research by people”: disciplined inquiry undertaken not primarily for academic careers or professional expertise, but by those seeking to live more thoughtfully, more freely, and with less dependence—in thought and deed—on the market and the state.

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Sign up to get updates! Get in touch writing to All the contents of Conspiratio are under a Peer Production License. ---------- ISSN online version: 2998-8438

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Submissions Conspiratio encourages contributions from everyone wanting to participate. All contributions are expected to reveal a degree of familiarity with Illich’s ideas and to engage them in a thoughtful way. Every issue of Conspiratio includes essays, thematic articles, book reviews, and occasional translations of texts on/by Illich. All these exemplify “research by people” and advance the cause of thinking with Ivan Illich.

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Volume 1 - Fall 2021 Table of contents * Editor’s letter [↓] Essays on Questions concerning ‘Life’ * Questions about the current pandemic from the point of view of Ivan Illich by David Cayley [↓] * It doesn’t work without fear by Wolfgang Palaver [↓] * Ivan Illich’s true legacy: on the so-called ‘sacralization of life’ by Jean-Pierre Dupuy [↓] * Concerning life: an open letter to Jean Pierre Dupuy and Wolfgang Palaver by David Cayley [↓] Thematic Articles on Reading Ivan Illich * Rea…

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Volume 2 - Spring 2022 Table of contents * Editor’s letter [↓] Essays * At the edge of time by Fabio Milana [↓] Thematic Articles: Responses to An Intellectual Journey * Apocalypse Now! A Revaluation of the Thought of Ivan Illich by Brother John, Taizé [↓] * Not a clergyman, just a man by Neto Leão [↓] * A Gothic Approach: Reading Maritain after Reading Cayley by Robert Kugelmann [↓] * Systems unexpectedness, flatness and counterproductivity by Nicola Labanca [↓] * An Unlit Candle b…

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isa (isa@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-09-04T13:28:45+00:00

Volume 3 - Fall 2022 Table of contents * Editor’s letter [↓] Essays * The True Politics: seriousness or play by Giorgio Agamben [↓] Thematic Articles: On the need for a Common Roof * Leopold Kohr, Initiator of Social Morphology by Ivan Illich [↓] * Ivan Illich: A Philosophy of Limits by Humberto Beck [↓] * Against pax oecologica by Neto Leão [↓] * Unthink the Zero! by Christophe Kotanyi [↓] * Think from the Abyss by Gustavo Esteva [↓] * Fishy Biomass by Sajay Samuel & Dean Bav…

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isa (isa@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-09-04T13:28:04+00:00

Volume 4 - Spring 2023 Table of contents * Editor’s letter [↓] Essays * Toward a Post-Clerical Church by Ivan Illich [↓] * A note to the text by Fábio Milana [↓] * From Hospitalization to Hospitality. On the Future of Christian Learning. A Commentary on Ivan Illich's Letter to Br. Robert Kelly SJ by Barbara Hallensleben [↓] Thematic Articles: On flesh/body * The Corruption of the Resurrection of the Flesh by Javier Sicilia [↓] * The Technique that Produced the First Female Fetus by B…

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isa (isa@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-09-04T13:27:32+00:00

Volume 5 - Spring 2023 Table of contents * Editor’s letter [↓] Essays * On Walking Away from Christianity: A Reply to Carl Mitcham by David Cayley [↓] Thematic Articles: 50 Years after Tools for Conviviality * Tools for Conviviality: Argument, Insight, Influence by Carl Mitcham [↓] * Postscript: "Tools for Conviviality: Argument, Insight, Influence" Three Decades Later by Carl Mitcham [↓] * Introduction to The Age of Systems in Illich’s Later Thinking by Jean Robert [↓] * Birth and E…

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Volume 6 - Fall 2024 Table of contents * Editor’s letter[↓] Essays * Hermine—the Unserved Life by Reimer Gronemeyer [↓] * Corruptio Optimi Quae Est Pessima: The Relevance of Illich in a Time of Exacerbating Civilizational Crisis by Carlos Tornel [↓] * Beyond the ‘It’: Mutuality, Maternal-Thinking, and the ‘She’ in Illich's Thought by Renee Uribe [↓] Thematic Articles: On Nature * The Shell of the Snail by Giorgio Agamben [↓] * The Image of Man in Artificial Intelligence: A Conversati…

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isa (isa@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-09-04T11:56:04+00:00

All Periodicals Conspiratio is published once a year as a digital and in print periodical. It comprises thematic articles, essays, book reviews, and translations. Occasionally, we publish a special issue that is exclusively online. Conspiratio publishes what Illich named ‘research by people’—disciplined studies intended for public discussion by those seeking to beautify their lives by being less dependent, in thought and deed, on the market and the state. Though conducted through the written w…

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Conspiratio Online Volume I - Summer 2026 Table of contents * Editor’s letter * Remembrance by Kate Cayley * Making it roomier: Ivan Illich and C.G. Jung on the mystery of evil and the next Christianity by David Cayley * Watershed: Introduction by David Cayley Translation * Epílogo de "Iván Illich. Un itinerario intelectual" by David Cayley This inaugural issue of Conspiratio Online is dedicated to David Cartwright Cayley (1946–2026). David spent over three decades making documen…

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Epílogo de "Iván Illich. Un itinerario intelectual"* * por David Cayley, Epílogo de “Iván Illich. Un itinerario intelectual” (Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021). Traducido por Hernando Calla (La Paz, Bolivia, 26 de julio de 2026)[][][][][]!

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isa (isa@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-09-03T14:28:59+00:00

Watershed: Introduction* By David Cayley *This is the introduction to a book about the COVID pandemic that David had begun to write. But on June 10, 2026, he died of a heart attack, at home, in the middle of singing a bluegrass song with friends. We’re posting this as a draft. It builds on an essay and ensuing discussion also conducted in the pages of the first issue of ..).[][][][][]-[][][][][][].[][][][][][][][][])[]_[][][][][][][][][]

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Making it roomier: Ivan Illich and C.G. Jung on the mystery of evil and the next Christianity By David Cayley ---------- “The advocates of Christianity squander their energies in the mere preservation or what has come down to them, with no thought of building on to their house and making it roomier.”--[]-[][][][][][][][])[][][][][])[][])[][][][][][][]-[][]-[].)[][])[][][]--[]-[]).)[][][][][][][][].[].[]-[][][][][]![][][][][]-[][])

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Editor’s Letter A beautifully made book is expensive to produce, and we cannot afford to publish two print editions a year. Yet every year we receive more submissions worthy of publication than a single print volume can hold — and some pieces, by their length or by the occasion that calls for them, deserve attention that a year's wait would not serve well. )))

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isa (isa@undisclosed.example.com) — 2026-09-03T14:27:33+00:00

Remembrance By Kate Cayley ---------- On the day of my father David’s burial, a beautiful early summer day, my sister Rachael said to me at the grave, very quietly, “Our father was a lucky man.” I think he knew it. One of the ways he was lucky was in how many things he loved.--------

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