“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
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…
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…
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…
Series: Social Ecology Today — Roots Is Hierarchy Natural? The Myth of Natural Domination Put to the Test “Hierarchy and domination are not natural givens of social life; they are the product of a long historical development. ” — Murray…
May 1st is not a holiday. It is neither a day graciously granted nor a breather offered between two weeks of toil. It carries within it a raw, unyielding memory, born in the dust and clamour of Chicago’s streets, when…
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,…
Why publish this text by Nicolas Casaux 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…
