Bookmarks - harvard, labor, philosophy, archive

These are some things I’ve wandered across on the web this week. 🔖 Illich at 100 We’re spreading a rumour. Over the first weekend in September, 2026, there will be local gatherings around dinner tables and picnic blankets and in convivial spaces of different kinds, in places around the world, to mark what would have been the 100th birthday of Ivan Illich. Whether you’re a newcomer to Illich’s work, a long-time reader or anywhere in between, you are warmly invited to be part of this. Check out the map to find what’s happening near you, sign up as a local contact to host a gathering – or read on to learn more about this remarkable thinker and why we are celebrating his centenary philosophy 🔖 Institutional Proceedings - University of Michigan: A pipeline and dataset to reason through two centuries of institutional decision-making. We introduce a structured dataset and accompanying processing pipeline for nearly 200 years of decision making, derived from the Proceedings of the Board of…