Category Review of various books

reviews and analyses of books addressing topics related to social ecology, communalism, and contemporary political thought.

Possibilities by David Graeber

Possibilités de David Graeber / 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…

The Athenian Democracy

La démocratie athénienne - 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…

The Ungovernable Society

The Ungovernable Society by Grégoire Chamayou / La société ingouvernable / La sociedad ingobernable

by Grégoire Chamayou A Genealogy of Authoritarian Liberalism If you are looking for a documented and referenced analysis (with an impressive array of notes) of the maneuvers and strategies of capitalism to maintain and reinforce its ideological dominance at the…

The Durruti Column in vivo

La Colonne Durruti in vivo

This comment concerns the 2 volumes of french edition published in 2016 by Libertalia. The first volume contains the story of Antoine Gimenez, the second brings together the remarkable documentary research work carried out by the Giménologues, which makes it…

Critique of Everyday Life

Couverture du livre "Critique de la vie quotidienne" - Tome 2 de Henri Lefebvre

Volume 2 by Henri Lefebvre When Henri Lefebvre published this book in 1961, he brought an undeniable renewal to sociological analysis, far from the coldness of the disembodied world of statistics. From the outset, he proclaims his ambition to both…