Illich’s Institutional Spectrum

Wow, keeping up with a blog is tough. And this is only my second post. I have no shortage of ideas (so far), just a shortage of time in which to compose them into coherent pieces. All day today I’ve been struggling to piece together a piece about libraries and marketing, using Ivan Illich’s institutional spectrum as a philosophical background. I finally realized that it’s just too involved to try to write right now (and it would probably make for a very long post), so I’ve decided to write it in pieces. Here’s the first one–the philosophical backround.