Tag Archives: ecology

Gary Snyder and Wild Anarchism

For Gary Snyder To be truly free one must take on the basic conditions as they are—painful, impermanent, open, imperfect—and then be grateful for impermanence and the freedom it grants us. Gary Snyder, The Etiquette of Freedom There is an … Continue reading

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The solutions are already here with Peter Gelderloos: A podcast

Follow the link below to an excellent discussion around Peter Gelderloos’ essay, The Solutions are Already Here. Peter Gelderloos joins us again to discuss his recent book “The Solutions are Already Here: Strategies for Ecological Revolution from Below”. The conversation … Continue reading

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The folly of grande illusions

Once again, by way of Lundi Matin (#341, 30/05/2022), we share below the third episode of Diamant Palace, with Alain Damasio et Vinciane Despret, from Le Biais Vert (available with english language subtitles). For the first episode, click here. “A robot may not … Continue reading

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Nature is the marvelous that the surrealist seeks

Perhaps my life is nothing but an image of this kind; perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn what I simply should recognize, learning a mere fraction … Continue reading

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Nature doesn’t exist

By way of Lundi Matin (#332, 28/03/2022), we share below the first episode of Diamant Palace, from Le Biais Vert (available with english language subtitles). In an occupied theater, from where a pirate radio broadcasts, we take stock of the … Continue reading

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International Anarchist Statement on Covid 19 Pandemic

February 7, 2022 No one is safe until we are all safe The Covid 19 pandemic has impacted every aspect of human life. It has had a devastating effect on people’s physical and mental health, social relations and communities, our … Continue reading

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Noam Chomsky: An interview on afghanistan, china, climate change and anarchism

We share below an interview for the danish magazine Eftertryk with Poyâ Pâkzâd and Benjamin Magnusson in October 2021. The interview has also been published by Jacobin magazine and the conversation is also available on youtube (see below). …

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Leo Tolstoy: Reading the ecological crisis as the sign of slavery

Electric lights and telephones and exhibitions are excellent, and so are all the pleasure-gardens, with concerts and performances, and all the cigars, and match-boxes, and braces, and motor cars, but they may all go to perdition, and not they alone, … Continue reading

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Yuk Hui: From the universality of progress to cosmotechnics

Among the many incarnations of ecological practice and theory is a view calling for a more “natural” way of life, or more emphatically, a “return to nature” against “civilisation”, in all of its different manifestations: technology, education, society, and so … Continue reading

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Louisiana and the era of disasters

In this era of disaster, one of the most difficult tasks will be to move beyond continuously reacting to one crisis after another in order to plan more ambitiously for an uncertain future. This already feels overwhelming, and it is … Continue reading

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