Volume 2 - Spring 2022
Volume 2 - Spring 2022
Table of contents
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 by Sajay Samuel
- “Go and Do Likewise”: Reconsidering Luke 10:25-37 by Joey Mokos
- Ivan Illich: An Intellectual Journey by Wolfgang Palaver
- David Cayley responds... by David Cayley
Reviews
- Review of "Educing Ivan Illich" by Denis Atkinson
Translations
- A Construção Institucional de um Novo Fetiche: a vida humana by Ivan Illich
This second issue leads with a series of essays on rising interest in Illich is represented by David Cayley’s remarkable Ivan Illich: an intellectual journey published in 2021.
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Editorial note
Conspiratio is a periodical, and a periodical is different from a scholarly journal or a popular magazine. It collects the fruits of what is grown in a ‘garden of low studies’, a phrase proposed by Giorgio Agamben. It is a vehicle for those who want to collaborate with each other in thinking after Illich. It is founded on the belief that arguments require the clarity and distance of the written word to be properly understood, even if it is the utterances of fleeting speech that can decisively change a heart. The name Conspiratio was previously used by the Mexican poet Javier Sicilia for a publication that is no longer in print. Though we live in the time of conspiracy theories, fake news, and state and corporate propaganda, both Javier and I were inspired to choose the name by a line in Illich’s essay titled The Cultivation of Conspiracy — ‘…the quest for truth cannot thrive outside the nourishment of mutual trust.’ Continue reading >