“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
a glossary of terms used in the field of Social Ecology.
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…
The fear we would like to talk about here is not that related to an effective and immediate threat, a fear that would then be completely legitimate and justified. No, what we are talking about is the fear that can…
Because of the issues we face, we are rather serious at the Workshop, as the present times hardly lend themselves to joking. However, we cannot do without humor, a humor that is a little dark at times, in the sense…
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,…
“Resilience is a technology of consent. It is about consenting to the inevitability of disasters, particularly technological disasters, in order to learn to ‘live with’ them, without ever tackling their causes. It is about consenting to training, learning and experimenting…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
