“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
reviews and analyses of books addressing topics related to social ecology, communalism, and contemporary political thought.
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…
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…
Dr. Eleanor Finley reviews Yavor Tarinski’s latest book Horizons of Direct Democracy: Revolutionary Politics in an Age of Social & Environmental Collapse (On Our Own Authority! Publishing, 2025). It is no secret that our current global order is in chaos.…
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…
■ Freddy GOMEZ FOLIES D’ESPAGNE (Spanish Follies) Ombres et lumières d’un anarchisme de guerre (Shadows and Lights of Anarchism in War) L’échappée, “Dans le feu de l’action,” 2025, 384 p. “I write only to be reread.” Walter Benjamin, Conversation with…
Deconstructing the constitutional fetish: a step towards communalist emancipation? In The Constitution in the 21st Century: History of a Social Fetish, Lauréline Fontaine continues the sharp critical work she began several years ago on the mystifying role of the Constitution…
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,…
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…
Murray Bookchin, American libertarian theorist and father of social ecology, is well known for his work on the interconnections between ecology and social struggle. In “The Spanish Anarchists: The Heroic Years (1868-1936)”, published in 2001 by AK press editor, he…
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,…
with the Social Ecology of Murray Bookchin Review by Ernest London, January 27, 2020 Floréal M. Roméro presents Murray Bookchin’s work, his critical and political journey. He proposes to find answers in social ecology and libertarian municipalism, without reproducing the…
