Tools for Conviviality

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 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