Category Views on our world

a series of critical reflections on the current situation of humanity and the challenges it faces.

Green capitalism as it is practiced, far away…

Le capitalisme vert tel qu’il se pratique, au loin …

The electric car, which is presented to us in France as an essential ecological advance, depends entirely on the massive extraction of minerals for the manufacture of its batteries, with particularly destructive effects where this takes place. What characterizes this…

The World Without an Outside

Le monde sans dehors. / The World Without an Outside

july 15th, 2025 Source : L’Observatoire situationniste – The Situationist Observatory. The image is no longer projected from an identifiable center: it is computed on the fly, based on profiles, behavioral data, and audience segmentation. “It’s not very cheerful, but unfortunately…

Quotes notebook: Society No. 43

Carnet de citations : Société N°43 / Quotes notebook: Society No. 43

Economic development, with its apparently autonomous laws, its abstract purpose, its misunderstood contradictions, its unpredictable effects, was experienced by men, since it constituted a specific world, as a foreign destiny, alternately distributing prosperity and misery to them, and more often…

Quotes notebook: Society No. 42

Carnet de citations : Société N°42, 45 / Quotes notebook: Society No. 42

Revolution is therefore not only necessary because it is the only way to overthrow the ruling class, it is also necessary because only a revolution will allow the class that overthrows the other to sweep away all the rottenness of…

Quotes notebook: Society No. 41

Carnet de citations : Société N°41 / Quotes notebook: Society No. 41

Strictly speaking, to criticize positivism is to focus on scientific “activity”. It is no coincidence that it has distanced itself from the concerns of humanity and that it has been so easy for it to conclude a service contract with…

Quotes notebook: Taking action No. 7

Carnet de citations : De l’agir N°7 / 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…