“HUMOR” – Social Ecology ABC

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

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,…

Dialogue with Cynthia Fleury Becoming aware of the forms of alienation in today’s society also means reactivating our political power outside the pitiful spectacle offered by politicians and the paths to servitude that they want to trace for us. To…

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…

The Versaillais entered Paris in 1871. They never left . (Journal – 1962 – René Fallet) This is the painful path that you consider to be the road to defeat, taking into account only those who have traveled it to…

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…

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…

What can we say now about Equality, a concept increasingly neglected and discarded not only by the representatives of domination, but by the majority who now prefer not to think about it. Thinking about equality means confronting a host of…

“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…

If we look no further than France’s social reality, we can see that nothing is going right. But we also see that revolts follow one another in a sectorized fashion, remaining virtually unconnected. This is where we see just how…