The city in history

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,…

“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives

“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives

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,…

Written by Yavor Tarinski – Soure: TRISE Today, plenums are talking about a new type of direct democracy. ~Dalibor Petrović[1] We see that in different temporal and spatial realities, in moments of social upheaval, that societies begin to move and…

No to the exploitation and perversion of communalism by the citizen movements and the institutional left Social ecology and communalism form a political project radically opposed to capitalism and all forms of state institutions. They are part of a perspective…

by Pëtr Kropotkin Kropotkine writes from an androcentric point of view. In his texts, we find an author who looks at the world through the eyes and position of a heterosexual white man. Nevertheless, Kropotkine offers fundamental analyses that are…

African communalism past and present: inhabitants’ assemblies and decision-making by consensus A tradition that is still relevant today! Although the State has existed in Africa for a long time (ancient Egypt – unification of the Nile valley around 3500 BC,…

“The Dialectic of the Concrete” by Karel Kosik Here we present fairly extensive extracts from the work of the Czech philosopher and critical thinker Karel Kosik (1926-2003). It is not known for what deleterious reasons this very important work disappeared…

Introduction “Man and the Earth” is the last great work of Élisée Reclus, geographer, anarchist and ecologist thinker of the 19th century. Published between 1905 and 1908, this six-volume encyclopedia offers a global vision of the history of humanity in…

“In Spain, there was a radical and change-bringing female subject before the suffragette movement” On the occasion of the publication of his essay “Las sin amo”, we return with Antonio Orihuela to the silenced history of a few women authors…

In view of the extraordinary confusion of the times and in order not to contribute to it, the need for a permanent search for coherence in our discourse, our practices and our ways of living has never been greater. There…

Murray Bookchin: for an eco-analysis of contemporary societies Murray Bookchin or the communocene objective. Social ecology and planetary liberation Pierre Sauvêtre 2024 Editions de l’Atelier 320 pages Pierre Sauvêtre, author of a book on the thought of Murray Bookchin, discusses…

Recreating and reinventing the space and conditions for dialogue is, quite simply, a priority for Social Ecology. In the society of the spectacle, which is the rotten fruit of the political economy, the confrontation of ideas is quickly transformed…