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Tag Archives: Encyclopédie des Nuisances
Encyclopédie des Nuisances: Environmentalism unto death (VII)
Abracadabrant – Encyclopédie des Nuisances (Encyclopédie des Nuisances, Nº 15, 1992) Everything that used to be part of the sphere of knowledge, its transmission and its acquisition, has disappeared into the hands of those who confiscated it. The consequences of … Continue reading
Encyclopédie des Nuisances: Misery amidst plenty (VI)
Abundance has always existed, but nowhere has it existed abundantly: either because everyone did not enjoy it or because, when everyone did enjoy it, they did not do so all of the time. No doubt abundance really lived can only … Continue reading
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Encyclopédie des Nuisances: Energy and/or Death (V)
… we feel confident in asserting that henceforth this world can contain only two kinds of seriousness: the seriousness of the extremists of domination, as obvious as the means at their disposal for perpetuating it any price — and ours, … Continue reading
Encyclopédie des Nuisances: Movement as illusion, stillness as meaninglessness (IV)
Introduction It is said that the automobile industry created and brought life to the cities, but once again official history dangerously misrepresents and distorts the facts. In reality, it is responsible for the destruction of viable human communities and emblematic … Continue reading
Encyclopédie des Nuisances: Literacy, memory and the past (III)
The value of information does not survive the moment in which it was new. It lives only at that moment; it has to surrender to it completely and explain itself to it without losing any time. A story is different. … Continue reading
Encyclopédie des Nuisances: The means of miscommunication (II)
What news! how much more important to know what that is which was never old! Henry David Thoreau, Walden For anyone who has not renounced the desire for authentic communication, for anyone who is not an impotent intellectual, the real … Continue reading
Encyclopédie des Nuisances: A cartography of alienation (I)
… the reality that we start from is ignorance. This appears to us to be a human faculty whose exercise must be truly familiar and an everyday experience for all our contemporaries; thus, it is a more solid and more … Continue reading
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Address to those who would rather abolish harmful phenomena than manage them
The ecologists play the same role, on the terrain of the struggle against harmful phenomena, that the trade unionists play on the terrain of workers struggles: mere intermediaries interested in the preservation of the contradictions whose regulation they assure; smooth-tongued … Continue reading →