I’d like to re-issue a few of the invitations for research (research of an Illichian order) that I read in Illich (and which I believe few if any have accepted). I’ll further suggest that “study” and “research” inspired by Illich in the form of story-telling, reporting, shared readings may further humanize the unreality of professionalized contexts, and may lead to the kind of sustained reflection that enabled Illich and friends to arrive at important insight into our current predicaments…what Illich has named “Absurdistan.”