non-technical and unmanaged relations | sara hendren
https://sarahendren.com/2025/03/30/non-technical-and-unmanaged-relations/
For Illich, the key criteria for accessing our tools, their productivity or counterproductivity, is whether they serve or undermine “individual freedom realized in personal interdependence.” He defines health itself as the “autonomous power to cope,” an autonomy rooted not in some disembodied individualism but in “self-care” and non-technical and unmanaged relations within a cultural community.