Page, text and screen in the university: Revisiting the Illich hypothesis
Educational Philosophy and Theory 50 (1):49-60 (2018)
Abstract
In the age of web 2.0, the university is constantly challenged to re-adapt its ‘old-fashioned’ pedagogies to the new possibilities opened up by digital technologies. This article proposes a rethinking of the relation between university and (digital) technologies by focusing not on how technologies function in the university, but on their constituting a meta-condition for the existence of the university pedagogy of inquiry. Following Ivan Illich’s idea that textual technologies played a crucial role in the inception of the university, we will first show the structural similarities between university thinking and the text as a profanation of the book. Secondly, we describe university thinking as a type of critical thinking based on the materiality of the text-on-the-page, explaining why the text has been at the centre of university pedagogy since the beginning. In the third part, we show how Illich came to see the end of the culture of the text as a challenge for the university, by describing the new features of the text-as-code incompatible with the idea of reading as study. Finally, we challenge this pessimistic reading of Illich’s and end with a call for a profanatory pedagogy of digital technologies that could mirror the revolutionary thinking behind the mediaeval invention of the text.Author's Profile
Reprint years
2017
DOI
10.1080/00131857.2017.1323624
My notes
Similar books and articles
Ivan Illich and René Girard: The Dream of Modernity Ends.Jorge Márquez Muñoz - 2016 - Contagion: Journal of Violence, Mimesis, and Culture 23:155-185.
Re-politicizing the scholastic: school and schoolchildren between politicization and de-politicization.Itay Snir - 2016 - Ethics and Education 11 (2):117-130.
Ivan Illich and the Nemesis of Medicine.Robert J. Barnet - 2003 - Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 6 (3):273-286.
Ivan Illich's Late Critique of Deschooling Society: “I Was Largely Barking Up the Wrong Tree”.Jon Igelmo Zaldívar Rosa Bruno‐jofré - 2012 - Educational Theory 62 (5):573-592.
Ivan Illich in Conversation: The Testament of Ivan Illich.Ivan Illich & David Cayley - 1992 - House of Anansi.
On-Printed Page And Screen Reading Preferences Of Teachers’ With Their Views On The Use Of Electronic Text In Education.Abdullah DAĞTAŞ - 2013 - Journal of Turkish Studies 8:137-161.
An analysis and evaluation of Ivan Illich's social and educational philosophy in the light of his early development and the major critiques of his theories.George Cyr - unknown
The Challenges of Ivan Illich a Collective Reflection.Lee Hoinacki & Carl Mitcham - 2002 - SUNY Press.
Conscientization and Deschooling: Freire's and Illich's Proposals for Reshaping Society.John L. Elias - 1976 - Philadelphia: Westminster Press.
Humanismo radical, de crecimiento y energía. Una lectura de las ideas de Iván Illich.Roberto Espejo - 2008 - Polis 21.
The Outlay Page: An Exercise in Interpretation.Tom McCallion - 2004 - Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis 4:111-127.
Analytics
Added to PP
2017-10-05
Downloads
420 (#26,531)
6 months
75 (#14,097)
2017-10-05
Downloads
420 (#26,531)
6 months
75 (#14,097)
Historical graph of downloads
Author's Profile
Citations of this work
Emotions and Digital Well-being. The rationalistic bias of social media design in online deliberations.Lavinia Marin & Sabine Roeser - 2020 - In Christopher Burr & Luciano Floridi (eds.), Ethics of Digital Well-being: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Cham: Springer. pp. 139-150.
From the Textual to the Digital University. A philosophical investigation of the mediatic conditions for university thinking.Lavinia Marin - 2018 - Dissertation, Ku Leuven
Lo normativo en Psicología del Desarrollo y Educacional.Baquero Ricardo - 2020 - Aprender-Caderno de Filosofia E Psicologia da Educação 23:13-26.
Making marks while reading, with some remarks on the challenges posed by the digital world.Marcus A. Lessa, Domício Proença Júnior, Roberto Bartholo & Édison Renato Silva - 2022 - Educational Philosophy and Theory 54 (2):183-193.
Education in the Age of the Screen: Possibilities and Transformations in Technology.Nancy Vansieleghem, Joris Vlieghe & Manuel Zahn (eds.) - 2019 - London: Routledge.
References found in this work
Nietzsche, Genealogy, History.Michel Foucault - 1978 - In John Richardson & Brian Leiter (eds.), Nietzsche. Oxford University Press. pp. (139-164).
God, Philosophy, Universities: A Selective History of the Catholic Philosophical Tradition.Alasdair C. MacIntyre - 2009 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.