A SICK PLANET
of Guy Debord -1971 “Pollution” is in vogue today, in exactly the same way as revolution: it takes over the whole of society’s life, and is illusorily represented in the spectacle. It is a tiresome chatter in a plethora of…
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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Essays on Late Capitalism in the Third Millennium #02
An inventory – Chapter II “Impérialisme d’exclusion et état d’exception” (Imperialism of Exclusion and the State of Exception) by Robert Kurz Published in Germany in 2003 but edited in France in 2018, a text of great lucidity on the new…
“HOSPITALITY” – Social Ecology ABC
The notion of hospitality (Greek philoxenia) has been at the heart of human history and civilization for millennia. In a way, we might even say that it is what gave birth and substance to this history, enabling the expansion of…
“HISTORY” – Social Ecology ABC
The history we’re really interested in is of course not “taught” or “taught falsely”, and therefore only appears marginally. It is, so to speak, a question of point of view; this point of view is generally that of domination, unfolding…
The Society of the Spectacle
by Guy Debord Reading “The Society of the Spectacle” is not easy. Not that the book is particularly difficult in itself, but because this difficulty is due to the very nature of its subject. An object that any approach towards…
“EQUALITY” – Social Ecology ABC
What can we say now about Equality, a concept increasingly neglected and discarded not only by the representatives of domination, but by the majority who now prefer not to think about it. Thinking about equality means confronting a host of…
Science and techniques under capitalism
Every researcher, whether in the fields of science or technology, should legitimately ask themselves what the outcomes of their discoveries will be, what their applications will be, what use will be made of them by those for whom they work,…
Capital and Race
Sylvie Laurent, Capital and Race. History of a Modern Hydra, Seuil, 2024 A little over 500 large-format pages, 70 pages of notes, almost every one of which gives one or more references to other books and/or articles, this is a…
“TECHNOLOGY” – Social Ecology ABC
Many of the problems associated with technology are being glossed over. The legacy of capitalism, should we ever manage to get rid of it, will be a heavy one in any case. How, for example, can we put an end…
Essays on Late Capitalism in the Third Millennium #01
An inventory – Chapter I Here you will find essays from various sources, written in the twenty-first century, attempting to shed light on the vestiges of society that make up our contemporary world enslaved by market logic. It will be…
Quotes notebook: Taking action No. 7
“What we lack is the creative faculty to imagine what we know; what we lack is the generous impulse to accomplish what we imagine; what we lack is the poetry of life…” (Shelley) “He who surrenders himself completely to the…
“INDIFFERENCE” – Social Ecology ABC
If we look no further than France’s social reality, we can see that nothing is going right. But we also see that revolts follow one another in a sectorized fashion, remaining virtually unconnected. This is where we see just how…
The Athenian Democracy
by Mogens H. Hansen During the almost two centuries that Athenian democracy lasted, no citizen of the city of Athens would have been innocent enough to live under the thumb of an oligarchy and its special interests while convincing himself…