# Volume 4 - Spring 2023
==== Table of contents ====
* [[editorial|Editor’s letter]]
=== Essays ===
* *[[illich|Toward a Post-Clerical Church]]* by Ivan Illich
* *[[milana|A note to the text]]* by Fábio Milana
* *[[hallensleben|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 ===
* *[[sicilia|The Corruption of the Resurrection of the Flesh]]* by Javier Sicilia
* *[[duden|The Technique that Produced the First Female Fetus]]* by Barbara Duden
* *[[illich2|The Personal Decision in a World Dominated by Communication]]* by Ivan Illich
* *[[cayley|Guarding our Senses in the Age of the Show: Against the Burning Out of Hearts]]* by David Cayley
* *[[kugelmann|Learning to Feel Stress]]* by Robert Kugelmann
* *[[samerski|Nemesis plagues Covid-19 management]]* by Silja Samerski
* *[[morelli|Ivan Illich and the Phenomenology of the Incarnation]]* by Giovanna Morelli
* *[[babich|Reading Ivan Illich on the Elemental Body]]* by Babette Babich
* *[[everett|The Conspiratio of Ivan Illich and the Kiss of Peace]]* by Toby Everett
* *[[mitcham|A Competition of Corruptions: Mediterranean Disembedding versus Asian Nihilism]]* by Carl Mitcham
* *[[hatzikiriakou|ANAKOMIDI]]* by Kostas Hatzikiriakou
=== Translations ===
* *[[illich3|Doze Anos Após Nêmesis da Medicina: Um Apelo por uma História do Corpo]]* by Ivan Illich
* *[[cayley2|A Propósito de la Vida: Carta Abierta a Jean-Pierre Dupuy y Wolfgang Palaver]]* by David Cayley
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*Illich devoted the last two decades of his life to historical studies of the body and sense perceptions. Notable in this regard was his collaboration with Barbara Duden in what she calls their “quest for a past somatics.” That quest was prompted by his growing awareness that self-perception was rapidly becoming disembodied. The theme of the 4th issue is Flesh/Body.*
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==== Editorial note ====
Unusually for him, Ivan Illich was not able to convey the argument he presented in Gender in a short lecture.1 This failure was not because his argument was woolly-headed or mistaken. Illich understood perfectly well why Gender be- came the object of uncomprehending vitriol and why it could not be effectively summarized. As he said, “the category of the human being is such a profound certainty of post-Enlighten- ment thought that my claim that this is a recently engineered social reality is simply unacceptable.”2 The human being is no more questioned as a social category today than it was forty years ago, when Illich wrote Gender. Neither the emerging debate on AI nor the ongoing debate on the construction of gender or sexual identities puts the human into question. Just as artificial intelligence presupposes human intelligence, so also it is a human being who identifies as nonbinary.
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