“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
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…
A guide to navigating your way around the different versions of this foundational text of situationist theory and associated commentaries. Author Fozzie Bear Submitted by Fozzie on April 11, 2026 As a matter of fact, I believe that there is…
Series: Social Ecology Today — Roots An Indispensable Critical Legacy Social ecology is situated within a theoretical landscape in which Marxism occupies a central place. While not reducible to it, social ecology draws on certain essential tools from Marxism to…
The Quest for Autonomy Against the Fantasy of Deliverance Published in 2021, Terre et liberté. The Quest for Autonomy Against the Fantasy of Deliverance ranks among the most thought-provoking essays of recent years for rethinking emancipation beyond both technocratic dead…
Anarchism: How to establish Freedom? Social ecology is often presented as a form of ecological anarchism. This characterization is not incorrect—but it remains insufficient for understanding what this approach truly seeks to articulate. For while social ecology clearly belongs to…
Understanding why people continue to vote: a path toward overcoming resigned abstention and rebuilding forms of power from the ground up As we find ourselves between the two rounds of municipal elections, one question persists—all the more poignantly since it…
Series: Social Ecology Today — Roots About this series The series ‘Social Ecology Today’ explores and clarifies the thinking and practices of social ecology, showing how this approach connects ecological crises to the social and political structures that produce them,…
Below we publish an article originally published in Numéro Zéro, written by Daniel Adam-Salamon. In it, the author offers a critical reflection on what he calls “ordinary totalitarianism,” understood as a form of diffuse domination in which the market, state…
Why publish this text by Nicolas Caseaux on The Workshop? This text echoes the analyses we develop at The Workshop based on a living communalist social ecology, oriented towards the reconstruction of free and confederated communes. By contrasting the “fantasy…
A political world reveals itself in what it tolerates, but above all in what it legitimizes. Seeing identity politics take root, the trivialization of targeted violence, symbolic gestures blurring fundamental reference points: all this paints a picture of an era…
Solidarity contribution — pooling As ecological, social, and democratic crises deepen, one question remains central: how can we build emancipatory forms of organization without repeating the logic we contest? This requirement for consistency between means and ends is not simply…
The reality experienced by Palestinians, not only in Gaza but also in the West Bank, is intolerable and unacceptable. Yet this ignominy, this ruthless crushing of a people, continues with the consent, or at least the passivity, of most governments…
