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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.
-For the seminar [[On hammers and sandcastles]] we wil make an attempt at understanding the ideas (or at least in parts) behind //Tools for Conviviality//. 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:
-  * A conclusions from [[Deschooling Society]]
+. Introduction and results from Deschooling Society \\
-  * B tools: [[means to an end or convivial]]
+. Tools: means to an end or convivial? \\
-  * C [[two watersheds]]
+. Power and tools' energy output
-  * D the threshold of a [[convivial or manipulating tool?]]
-  * E a [[tool's energy in-/output]]