“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
Communalist Social Ecology: From Imposed Institutions to the Self-Institutioning of Society Today we are launching a new format for sharing information: the infographic. This first visual aid aims to provide a concise introduction to the Atelier’s theoretical and political project—communalist…
The field of language is a crucial battleground in the war between us and the capitalist system of domination. Through its massive control of the media, through the specific forms given to what we still call “education,” and through the…
July 30 will mark the 20th anniversary of Murray Bookchin’s death. He was known as a pioneer of the environmental movement, a political theorist, and a visionary of a future society based on a confederation of free communes—one that rejects…
Series — Social Ecology Today: Dialogues Is Moving Away from Growth Enough? “Grow or die”: that is the law governing every enterprise in a market society.1 — Murray Bookchin, 1989 Introduction — From Roots to Dialogues The first five texts…
Published on July 13, 2026 / By Iñaki Urdanibia “Talking about freedom only makes sense if it means having the freedom to tell people what they don’t want to hear.” Eric Arthur Blair, known by the pen name George Orwell…
42 degrees in some parts of the country. The elderly are dying in their apartments, which have turned into ovens. Construction workers are collapsing on their job sites. The homeless are dying on the paved streets of our showcase cities.…
Toward a Radical and Feminist Ecology — A Communalist Analysis Passages presents itself as a journal “for a radical and feminist ecology.” Its inaugural issue, devoted to the question of civilization, draws on an impressive array of theoretical tools and…
For more than fifteen years, popular uprisings have swept across the globe: from Tunisia to Chile, from Sudan to Lebanon, from Syria to France, from Iran to Sri Lanka. Despite the diversity of their contexts, these revolts have often stumbled…
Series — Social Ecology Today: Roots How is domination embedded in subjectivities? “Domination does not merely produce institutions; it shapes characters, desires, and imaginaries.” Introduction — From Social Critique to the Ecology of Subjectivities After examining the theoretical foundations of…
Review of Critique of Advanced Technological Society Herbert Marcuse — ETEROTOPIA France, Rhizome Collection, October 2024. Foreword by Benakis Matsas — Afterword by Michael Löwy The reissue by ETEROTOPIA France of Critique of Advanced Technological Society brings together a partially…
Very few economists will admit that their pseudo-science—what is generally referred to as political economy, that is, the structural dynamics of capitalism—is primarily based on large-scale plunder and rapine. Pirates and buccaneers were, by comparison, mere amateurs, seeking to emulate…
In 1923, the Institute for Social Research was founded in Frankfurt with the aim of making critical philosophy, or critical theory, an instrument of social change and transformation. The Institute quickly distanced itself from the pseudo-communism imported from the USSR…
