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| The text //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. | //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. |
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| For the seminar [[On hammers and sandcastles]] an attempt at understanding the ideas (or at least in parts) behind //Tools for Conviviality// will be made. Its contents could be sectioned into: | In the following is a {{ :tfc_summary.20250609.pdf |reader with text excerpt from Tools for Conviviality}}, arranged in subjective order and sections: |
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| * conclusions from [[Deschooling Society]] | 1. Introduction and results from Deschooling Society \\ |
| * when tools become [[means to an end]] | 2. Tools: means to an end or convivial? \\ |
| * [[convivial tools]] | 3. Power and tools' energy output |
| * [[two watersheds]] | |
| * the threshold of a [[convivial or manipulating tool?]] | |
| * a [[tool's energy in-/output]] | |