“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
“L'Adventice” — Collective for social ecology & communalist perspectives
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…
by Guy Debord Reading “The Society of the Spectacle” is not easy. Not that the book is particularly difficult in itself, but because this difficulty is due to the very nature of its subject. An object that any approach towards…
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…
Every researcher, whether in the fields of science or technology, should legitimately ask themselves what the outcomes of their discoveries will be, what their applications will be, what use will be made of them by those for whom they work,…
“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…
“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,…
Capitalism is probably the first example of a cult that is not expiatory but guilt-inducing. This religious system is driven here into a monstrous movement. A monstrously guilty conscience that does not know how to atone seizes the cult, not…
Volume 2 by Henri Lefebvre When Henri Lefebvre published this book in 1961, he brought an undeniable renewal to sociological analysis, far from the coldness of the disembodied world of statistics. From the outset, he proclaims his ambition to both…
