Ursula Franklin—technology thinker, physicist, metallurgist, Quaker, and committed pacifist—is one of the people whose work I return to the most when things are bad.
I tried to write about her great short checklist for making decisions about technology and I ended up writing a whole post about just the first item, which the real foundational one.
https://www.wrecka.ge/ursulas-list/
"The viability of technology, like democracy, depends in the end on the practice of justice…"
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@kissane Ha! You got me. Illich, Foucault, Ostrom, Alexander. Now I am curious to read more of Ursula Franklin. Thank you for introducing. Great quote at the end of your post. Do you happen to know if Franklin and Illich ever met? Or knew of each other? Perceived each other's works?
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@bicipoiesis She quotes him in TRWoT and I think elsewhere as well, and they met, but weren’t friends afaik. The Illich scholar and former CBC guy (a friend and colleague of Franklin’s) David Cayley has some context:
https://www.davidcayley.com/blog/2019/1/16/ivan-illich-as-an-esoteric-writer
My own totally external sense is that Franklin’s generosity as a epistemic roamer was not always reciprocated.
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@kissane I'll have to get the book or listen to the lectures. Cayley had a series of talks with Illich which I think also were broadcasted by CBC. Later published as a book "The rivers north of the future". I like it because it gives a good introduction to Illich's thinking.
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@bicipoiesis I should listen to those—I’ve read Illich over the years and have kind of mixed feelings, but I think he got into some really important zones.
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