====== Tools for Conviviality ======

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//Tools for Conviviality// by Ivan Illich, published in 1973, follows its precursor //[[Deschooling Society]]// and results from the exchange of many participants at the [[CIDOC]] in Cuernevaca, Mexico. The text is a critical essay on the industrial mode of production and living as a threat to society. It discusses the tools a society uses as essential to the development of a society's power structures. Therefore the nature and characteristics of tools can be a key to prevent drifting from a constructive to a destructive society.

In the following is a {{ :tfc_summary.20250609.pdf |reader with text excerpt from Tools for Conviviality}}, arranged in subjective order and sections:

1. Introduction and results from Deschooling Society \\
2. Tools: means to an end or convivial? \\
3. Power and tools' energy output