In the fourth chapter of Shadow Work, Illich offers the thought of Hugh of St. Victor on the mechanical arts as a means to the development of personal virtue, contrasting it to the modern development of science for mass consumption. Is Illich’s view of modern science and technology that of a romantic Luddite wistful about a past that’s never been, or has he identified a key vulnerability in the narrative of progress?
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