Category Workshop: Research & Perspectives

“IDEOLOGY” – Social Ecology ABC

« IDÉOLOGIE » – Abécédaire de l’Écologie Sociale

You can’t fight capitalism with ideology, because capitalism is precisely the ideology realized by market liberalism, which, through Political Economy, has amalgamated all ideologies. In a way, capitalism is the triumph of ideology. This is what we’re witnessing with what…

Social Ecology ABC

Abécédaire de l’Écologie Sociale - Cartilla de Ecología Social - Social Ecology ABC

The workshop’s ABC is designed as a kind of glossary for the field of Social Ecology. Its aim is to take a critical, yet as constructive a look as possible at the factors determining the times in which we live,…

« DIALOGUE » – Social Ecology ABC

« DIALOGUE » – Social Ecology ABC

Recreating and reinventing the space and conditions for dialogue is quite simply a Social Ecology priority. Colonised as we are by social networks, we are subjected to a constant avalanche of virtual information of varying degrees of reliability. As well…

« DESIRE » – Social Ecology ABC

« DESIRE » – Social Ecology ABC

The question seems to me to be, why has it become so difficult to debate? It’s obvious that within any group, and given the complexity of the realities we face, there are bound to be various points of divergence, or…

« GUILT » – Social Ecology ABC

« GUILT » - Social Ecology ABC - Balance between Responsability and External forces

One of the peculiarities of the capitalist world, a result of its reign that is seldom observed, is its ability to spread forms of guilt everywhere. And with a few rare exceptions, it has to be said that, for once,…

« DEMOCRATY » – Social Ecology ABC

« DEMOCRATY » - Social Ecology ABC - Balance between Effective & direct democracy and Illusion - Permanent confiscation of the power by the state and the capitalist religion

What meaning can we give to this word outside the theoretical abstraction that today claims to define its framework and modalities? For it has become increasingly clear that neither elections, nor voting, nor political parties, and even less so state…

« CONFUSION » – Social Ecology ABC

« CONFUSION » - Social Ecology ABC - Balance between Contradictions ans totalizing influence

“What matters for understanding the contemporary moment is the disintegration of meanings and realities, not as a direct consequence of the stranglehold of established forces on reality, but on the contrary as a central indicator of their loss of control,…

« ALTERNATIVE » – Social Ecology ABC

« ALTERNATIVE » – Social Ecology ABC - Real alternatives - Ingrained Habits Reformists

To put it bluntly: now that it is clear that the “structural forces” are unlikely to produce something to our liking, all that remains is the prospect of imagining real alternatives. David Graeber This remark by D. Graeber sums up…