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.
“BEWILDERMENT” – Social Ecology ABC
We don’t know what bewilderment thinking certain groups and individuals seem to want to associate communalism with electoral participation on the occasion of municipal elections.
“DEMOCRATY” – Social Ecology ABC
What meaning can we give to this word outside the theoretical abstraction that today claims to define its framework and modalities? For it has become
“PATRIARCHY” – Social Ecology ABC
Male domination is both visible and invisible. It is a form of systemic violence that shapes gender social relationships from which no one can escape.
“ALTERNATIVE” – Social Ecology ABC
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) FEAR” – Social Ecology ABC
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
“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
“GUILT” – Social Ecology ABC
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
“RESILIENCE” – Social Ecology ABC
“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’
“DESIRE” – Social Ecology ABC
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
“LIBERALISM” – Social Ecology ABC
“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
“DEAFNESS” – Social Ecology ABC
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
“« FASCIST »” – Social Ecology ABC
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
“HOSPITALITY” – Social Ecology ABC
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
“HISTORY” – Social Ecology ABC
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
“EQUALITY” – Social Ecology ABC
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
“TECHNOLOGY” – Social Ecology ABC
Many of the problems associated with technology are being glossed over. The legacy of capitalism, should we ever manage to get rid of it, will
“INDIFFERENCE” – Social Ecology ABC
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
“CONFUSION” – Social Ecology ABC
“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