Obscure, Outsider Health
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One thing I learned over the years is that valuable insights about "Health" almost all of time doesn’t come from people claiming to practice medicine or similar. This thread - a kind of collection, map, collage - is an attempt to gather those obscure and unconventional voices, whose experiences aren't rooted in traditional medicine. I consider them as outsiders. Some won't be well-known. Most never intended to deal with "Health" directly; they came from other themes and fields, yet their experiences are invaluable for the public's and one's own wellbeing.
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Philosophers, critics, forum users, politicians, biologists, architects, anonymous bloggers, yogis, people who were so sick and burning with a desire to heal, and so forth - lables dont matter. What's important is the wisdom they've gained through their research, experiences and reflections, as well as the fact that most of them went "too far". And thus found themselves grounded back into reality, confronting fundamental and basal questions.
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Alex K Chen's answer on "Why are outsiders/antidisciplinary people more trustworthy?
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There is an abundance of sources, such as works, books, lectures, podcasts, videos etc. - but sometimes only fragments lost in (digital) archives, reclaiming the forgotten. The objective is to create an archive and a collection, preserving and making available to seekers and finders, those who stumble upon this refuge. As a whole, a picture emerges as an imaginary healing sanctuary - a sort of asylum, refuge - which is merely a miniature representation of something vast, complex, and interconnected.
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Enormous is exchanged, fleetingly, temporarily. The works of these people, however fragmentary, monumental, endure time's test - they have ripened, outlasted, and will continue to do so. They bear witness to something timeless, a quality that's all too rare in today's fast-paced landscape. They disrupt the dominant narratives, memetic systems, incentives, institutions, and theories that often impede creative thinking and healing.
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Their contributions don't provide direct answers to specific questions; instead, they offer pathways for thinking, ways of seeing that draw you in, set you on your way, without an end in sight.
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You reached the bonfire, an opportunity for quiet contemplation and introspection.
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.Index of Outsiders
Each of them will get a seperate post, which will be linked here
Ivan Illich
Bernard Rudofsky
Isochroma (Jason Lalancette)
Area-1255 (AMX, Dan Gregory)
Martin Heidegger / Medard Boss
Peter Sloterdijk
Paul Feyerabend
Harold Hilman
Ray Peat
Aajonus Vonderplanitz
Alex K Chen
Tom Cowan
Electric Sematic
Vashinvetala (Andrey Lappa) -
Ivan Illich
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Important works
1970 - Illich, Ivan - Deschooling Society
1970 - Illich, Ivan - The Church, Change and Development
1970 - Illich, Ivan; Toynbee, Arnold; Goodman, Paul - The Great Ideas Today
1971 - Illich, Ivan - Celebration of Awareness
1972 - Illich, Ivan (foreword); Hancock, Rose Mary (translator) - Letters from the Desert
1973 - Illich, Ivan - Tools for Conviviality
1974 - Illich, Ivan - Energy and Equity
1975 - Illich, Ivan - Medical Nemesis - The Expropriation of Health
1978 - Bradshaw, John S.; Illich, Ivan - Doctors on Trial
1978 - Illich, Ivan - The Right to Useful Unemployment
1978 - Illich, Ivan - Toward a History of Needs
1980 - Bracher, Karl D.; Illich, Ivan - Der Mensch und seine Sprache
1982 - Illich, Ivan - Gender
1982 - Illich, Ivan - Im Weinberg des Textes
1986 - Illich, Ivan - H2O and the Waters of Forgetfulness
1987 - Illich, Ivan et al. - Disabling Professions
1988 - Illich, Ivan - ABC - The Alphabetization of the Popular Mind
1991 - Illich, Ivan et al. - Was macht den Menschen krank - 18 kritische Analysen
1996 - Illich, Ivan - Klarstellungen
2002 - Illich, Ivan; Hoinacki, Lee; Mitcham, Carl - The Challenges of Ivan Illich
2011 - Illich, Ivan; Cayley, David - Ivan Illich in Conversation
2012 - Illich, Ivan - In the Mirror of the Past
2018 - Illich, Ivan - Shadow Work
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.Videos
Ivan Illich - Medical Nemesis: The Expropriation of Health
Youtube VideoIvan Illich on Water and the History of the Senses - 1984
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.Other Texts
