“GUILT” – Social Ecology ABC
One of the peculiarities of the capitalist world, a result of its reign that is seldom observed, is its ability to spread forms of guilt everywhere. And with a few rare exceptions, it has to be said that, for once,…
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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📽️ Here Lies Bitterness: Healing from Resentment
Dialogue with Cynthia Fleury Becoming aware of the forms of alienation in today’s society also means reactivating our political power outside the pitiful spectacle offered by politicians and the paths to servitude that they want to trace for us. To…
Critique of logic and market reason
Thus economists, who always give the example of servitude, preach it to others under the title of the Law of the Market. “Did you dream of those days (…) When, your heart swollen with hope and valor, You would whip…
“RESILIENCE” – Social Ecology ABC
“Resilience is a technology of consent. It is about consenting to the inevitability of disasters, particularly technological disasters, in order to learn to ‘live with’ them, without ever tackling their causes. It is about consenting to training, learning and experimenting…
Green growth against nature
Printable version of Green growth against nature (french version) Hélène Tordjman Green growth against nature Critique of commercial ecology Introduction “It is a sad thing to think that nature is speaking and that mankind is not listening”. Victor Hugo, Carnets,…
“DESIRE” – Social Ecology ABC
The question seems to me to be, why has it become so difficult to debate? It’s obvious that within any group, and given the complexity of the realities we face, there are bound to be various points of divergence, or…
“LIBERALISM” – Social Ecology ABC
“Where property is sufficiently protected, it would be easier to live without money than without poor people, because otherwise who would do the work.” “The vast majority must remain both ignorant and poor.” An early champion of market liberalism, Bernard…
Alienation False Consciousness and Reification
These major sociological and philosophical concepts, indispensable to any understanding of the modes of operation of domination, have, in recent decades, been progressively removed from debate, reduced to silence or plunged into a confusionism largely maintained. Because you don’t tell…
Quotes notebook: History/Historiosophy No. 23
The Versaillais entered Paris in 1871. They never left . (Journal – 1962 – René Fallet) This is the painful path that you consider to be the road to defeat, taking into account only those who have traveled it to…
“DEAFNESS” – Social Ecology ABC
At the current stage of disintegration of the structure of society as a whole and worldwide, and even though there seems to be no lasting refuge from this debacle, the defensive reflex for many seems to be to “stop talking…
The Commune of 1871
LOOK AT THE COMMUNE OF PARIS, THAT WAS DEMOCRACY! “The big city has the warm pavement, Despite your showers of oil, And decidedly, we must Shake you out of your role…” Arthur Rimbaud – Parisian War Song ***** “Now, as…
“« FASCIST »” – Social Ecology ABC
Today, the term “fascist” is being used in all sorts of confusing ways. Far right extremists now call their opponents “fascists”. Tendencies claiming to be anarchists point to other anarchist tendencies as suspects of fascist leanings. In short, it’s all…
Possibilities by David Graeber
Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire Rebellion, in the face of the extraordinary mediocrity and pettiness of present-day human society as it has been constructed under the growing pressure of capitalist domination and ideology over the last few centuries, has…