Beyond a certain point, schooling systems increase ignorance and healthcare systems make us sicker, just as prisons produce criminality. The term calls back to Illich’s earliest university studies in Florence in the 1940s, where he took courses in chemistry and crystallography. Here we might turn for a moment to a book written by Illich’s friend Lewis Hyde, Trickster Makes This World. For those wishing to explore Illich’s late writings on the university, David Tinapple’s online archive is the place to start. — DHTeaser image credit: Dhows on the Nile.