“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
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…
We are publishing this interview with Héctor Llaitul, long-time spokesperson for the Coordinadora Arauco-Malleco (CAM), in a context marked by intensified state repression, the criminalization of territorial struggles, and the rise of the far right in Chile, as elsewhere in…
A fascistic symptom of a darkening world Some words are used to hide, others to reveal. “Immigration and Customs Enforcement” belongs to the first category: an administrative, almost neutral name designed to anesthetize reality. But reality is anything but neutral.…
Prefiguring food autonomy and popular forms of care Reclaiming the land: cultivating to become capable Agroecology today has many faces, some of which have been co-opted or watered down. Permaculture is a prime example: often reduced to a creative hobby…
A tool for emancipation to be revived at a time when resistance to oppression is once again mobilizing The history of revolutionary struggles cannot be reduced to major strikes, insurrections, or street clashes. It also plays out in more discreet…
Elements for a lucid dialogue between social ecology and anti-industrial criticism (Based on a cross-reading of “Renewable Lies & Decarbonized Capitalism” by Nicolas Casaux and “Authoritarian Technique and Democratic Technique” by Lewis Mumford) How can we think about technical and…
july 15th, 2025 Source : L’Observatoire situationniste – The Situationist Observatory. The image is no longer projected from an identifiable center: it is computed on the fly, based on profiles, behavioral data, and audience segmentation. “It’s not very cheerful, but unfortunately…
Deconstructing the constitutional fetish: a step towards communalist emancipation? In The Constitution in the 21st Century: History of a Social Fetish, Lauréline Fontaine continues the sharp critical work she began several years ago on the mystifying role of the Constitution…
About Pierre Sauvêtre’s book Murray Bookchin ou l’objectif communocène (Murray Bookchin or the Communocene Objective) (Éditions de l’Atelier, 2024) and his participation in the program “De la Commune au communalisme, histoire d’un projet politique” (From the Commune to Communalism: History…
No to the exploitation and perversion of communalism by the citizen movements and the institutional left Social ecology and communalism form a political project radically opposed to capitalism and all forms of state institutions. They are part of a perspective…
Introduction “Man and the Earth” is the last great work of Élisée Reclus, geographer, anarchist and ecologist thinker of the 19th century. Published between 1905 and 1908, this six-volume encyclopedia offers a global vision of the history of humanity in…
Murray Bookchin: for an eco-analysis of contemporary societies Murray Bookchin or the communocene objective. Social ecology and planetary liberation Pierre Sauvêtre 2024 Editions de l’Atelier 320 pages Pierre Sauvêtre, author of a book on the thought of Murray Bookchin, discusses…
