“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
