# Number 5 - Spring 2023
==== Table of contents ====
* [[editorial|Editor’s letter]]
=== Essays ===
* *[[cayley|On Walking Away from Christianity: A Reply to Carl Mitcham]]* by David Cayley
=== Thematic Articles: 50 Years after Tools for Conviviality ===
* *[[mitcham|Tools for Conviviality: Argument, Insight, Influence]]* by Carl Mitcham
* *[[mitcham02|Postscript: "Tools for Conviviality: Argument, Insight, Influence" Three Decades Later]]* by Carl Mitcham
* *[[robert|Introduction to The Age of Systems in Illich’s Later Thinking]]* by Jean Robert
* *[[riganelli|Birth and Exploitation of Common Goods in Perugia in the Middle Ages: The Case of the "Comunantia Fructus Water Lacus", of the Community of the "Chiugi Perugino" and of the "Pedate del Lago"]]*
by Giovanni Riganelli
* *[[leao|Imagination Lost: Crossing the Third Watershed]]* by Neto Leão
* *[[labanca|Imitation Games: When Who You Are Is Reduced to What You Do]]* by Nicola Labanca
* *[[farage|Swiped Right into the System]]* by Samar Farage
* *[[mesly|A Theory of Technique]]* by Philippe Mesly
* *[[morelli|Renewing La Convivialité, a Half Century Later]]* by Giovanna Morelli
* *[[zhu|The Language of Public Goods]]* by Henry Zhu
* *[[bonato|Jet]]* by Guest Artist Ernesto Bonato
=== Reviews ===
* *[[samuel|To Be (Cyborg) or Not]]* by Sajay Samuel
* *[[ferraris|The Eclipse of Tools]]* by Diego Ferraris
=== Translations ===
* *[[delvinco|Un colpo d’occhio disciplinato sugli arnesi]]* by Attilio Del Vinco
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*The fifth issue of Conspiratio is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Illich’s Tools for Conviviality. This issue is given to a dissection and elaboration of Illich’s arguments concerning tools. The cover of each printed issue was individually crafted by the artist Ernesto Bonato, whose reflections on the brush as the preeminent artistic tool is one of the articles.*
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==== Editorial note ====
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of Tools for Conviviality. In that pamphlet, Illich theorized that technology goes through two phases or, in his word, watersheds.1)The first watershed is crossed when an instrument becomes effective in realizing the purpose for which it is designed. Thomas Edison said he failed thousands of times before inventing a light bulb that worked. Illich’s enduring contribution remains his specification of the perverse effects when instruments cross a second watershed. Beyond a certain scale, tools turn counterproductive, means become ends, the cure becomes worse than the disease.
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