The city in history
of Lewis Mumford What is the city? How did it begin? What have been the phases of its development? Is it destined to disappear, or will our planet turn into a huge urban hive, which would be, for individualized cities,…
Social Ecology and Communalism Workshop
“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
Social Ecology and Communalism Workshop
“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
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Communalism and popular assemblies in Africa
African communalism past and present: inhabitants’ assemblies and decision-making by consensus A tradition that is still relevant today! Although the State has existed in Africa for a long time (ancient Egypt – unification of the Nile valley around 3500 BC,…
“The Dialectic of the Concrete” by Karel Kosik
“The Dialectic of the Concrete” by Karel Kosik Here we present fairly extensive extracts from the work of the Czech philosopher and critical thinker Karel Kosik (1926-2003). It is not known for what deleterious reasons this very important work disappeared…
“CONSISTENCY” – Social Ecology ABC
In view of the extraordinary confusion of the times and in order not to contribute to it, the need for a permanent search for coherence in our discourse, our practices and our ways of living has never been greater. There…
“DIALOGUE” – Social Ecology ABC
Recreating and reinventing the space and conditions for dialogue is, quite simply, a priority for Social Ecology. In the society of the spectacle, which is the rotten fruit of the political economy, the confrontation of ideas is quickly transformed…
A strange defeat by Didier Fassin
On consenting to the crushing of Gaza While avoiding getting carried away by anger which, in these circumstances, would nevertheless be perfectly legitimate, this book by Didier Fassin makes its mark. Based on irrefutable facts and testimonies whose veracity is…
“POLITICS” – Social Ecology ABC
The fact that only a minority of the population is interested in politics, that is to say in how society as a whole can be organized, in how a certain harmony of living together on this earth could be achieved,…
Quotes notebook: Society No. 42
Revolution is therefore not only necessary because it is the only way to overthrow the ruling class, it is also necessary because only a revolution will allow the class that overthrows the other to sweep away all the rottenness of…
“IDEOLOGY” – Social Ecology ABC
You can’t fight capitalism with ideology, because capitalism is precisely the ideology realized by market liberalism, which, through Political Economy, has amalgamated all ideologies. In a way, capitalism is the triumph of ideology. This is what we’re witnessing with what…
Social Ecology ABC
The workshop’s ABC is designed as a kind of glossary for the field of Social Ecology. Its aim is to take a critical, yet as constructive a look as possible at the factors determining the times in which we live,…
“AWARENESS” – Social Ecology ABC
It’s certainly an unfortunate time to be living in, when the very notion of consciousness appears to be completely foreign to many people, revealing itself to be the very reflection of their dispossession, their absence from the world. Awareness is,…
“INDIVIDUALISM” – Social Ecology ABC
There is much talk about the place of individualism in today’s society, generally lamenting its effects not only from a practical point of view but also in terms of the types of subjectivity it produces, which are profoundly distorted. At…
Social Contagion – Chuang Collective
This is a very important book. Not only because of its content, but especially because of its origins and its authors. The members of the Chuang collective are of Chinese origin, many of them residing in different provinces of China,…