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]> 2026-04-12T08:05:52+00:00 Vernacular Values 3000 en Ivan Illich By speaking about vernacular language and the possibility of its recuperation, I am trying to bring into awareness and discussion the existence of a vernacular mode of being, doing, and making that in a desirable future society might again expand in all aspects of life. Despite writing an essay titled "Vernacular Values" (1980), Illich never wrote an essay specifically devoted to defining the concept. Rather, he employed it as a conceptual frame within which to situate and connect a series of closely related concerns: the war against subsistence, the taught mother tongue, economic sex, professional dominance. Illich’s role in the popularization and clarification of this concept is crucial, and its use appears across multiple texts of his authorship, such as “The Waning of the Vernacular” (1978), “Vernacular vs. Commodities” (1979), “Vernacular Values and Economics” (1980), “Vernacular Virtue” (1980), “Vernacular Gender” (1982), “Introduction to Vernacular Values” (1983), among others. Some of these texts were published, others remain unpublished, and many of them largely converged in two of his seminal books: Shadow Work (1981) and Gender (1982). In this essay, we limit ourselves to collecting excerpts and quotations from his works, seeking to share, in a faithful and clear manner, Illich’s own inquiry, in the form of a mosaic that brings us closer to his definition of the concept of “vernacular values.” Vernacular Values 2025-12-16T00:27:05Z 2461025.5188079 Vernacular Values 3000 0 plainlist 1 [[:Concepts:Vernacular Values]] Vernacular Values# QUERYff1d55ae450693753ce28ddd4ec7dba8