The workshop’s ABC is designed as a kind of living 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, with a view to overcoming them. Although it aims to be truthful, we make no claim to universal knowledge. Each explanatory element can only provide a partial answer or orientation, which in no way closes the subject but rather invites debate.
It is through the articulation and interrelation of its components that we hope to be able to shed light on the conditions of life in today’s society, and on how we might extricate ourselves from them – both socially and individually, one not going without the other. It is as resolute explorers of the opacity that conditions the form of organizational domination in today’s society that we shall attempt to move forward along this path.
Considering this society to be perfectly infamous and degrading for all, we hope to be able to contribute in our own way to the demand for its replacement, by making this infamy more visible.
“DESPAIR” – Social Ecology ABC
Many of the most conscious individuals, and in a way the most lucid, now tend to despair about the future of humanity and the possibility
“RECOVERY” – Social Ecology ABC
One of the main resources of capitalism and its system of domination, one that has enabled it to endure alongside its permanent repressive logic throughout
“ACTIVITY” – Social Ecology ABC
The confusion between human activity and work is intrinsic to capitalist ideology, and it is essential to this ideology to maintain this confusion, which is
“TARGET” – Social Ecology ABC
It is certainly necessary to analyze in depth how capitalism works, in relation to its history, a necessity that was already largely put into practice
“DIVERSITY” – Social Ecology ABC
Throughout the millennia of human history, there have been a multitude of cultures with their own customs and traditions, giving life on Earth its extraordinary
“LANGUAGE” – Social Ecology ABC
The field of language is a crucial battleground in the war between us and the capitalist system of domination. Through its massive control of the
“CYNICISM” – Social Ecology ABC
If we ask ourselves what psychologically enables certain individuals to shamelessly exercise abusive power over everything around them, we almost always encounter established forms of
“VOTE” – Social Ecology ABC
Voting does not express democracy. On the contrary, it is an expression of its failure, of its inability to establish a common ground where everyone
“TIPPING POINT” – Social Ecology ABC
If there is a shift in the present era, it is not occurring where those hoping for a radical change in the type of society
“CONSISTENCY” – Social Ecology ABC
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
“DIALOGUE” – Social Ecology ABC
Recreating and reinventing the space and conditions for dialogue is, quite simply, a priority for Social Ecology. In the society of the spectacle, which
“RADICALISM” – Social Ecology ABC
This is a term whose usage has undergone, and continues to undergo, surprising fluctuations and shifts in interpretation. Derived from the old Latin radicalis, its
“POLITICS” – Social Ecology ABC
The fact that only a minority of the population is interested in politics, that is to say in how society as a whole can be
“IDEOLOGY” – Social Ecology ABC
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
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
“AWARENESS” – Social Ecology ABC
It’s certainly an unfortunate time to be living in, when the very notion of consciousness appears to be completely foreign to many people, revealing itself
“INDIVIDUALISM” – Social Ecology ABC
There is much talk about the place of individualism in today’s society, generally lamenting its effects not only from a practical point of view but
“DISCRIMINATION” – Social Ecology ABC
We are witnessing a very curious phenomenon in our late post-modernism: while we are constantly denouncing multiple forms of discrimination, whether based on sex, religion,