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Bernard Legros

Bernard Legros, enseignant, essayiste, militant politique (Mouvement politique des objecteurs de croissance) et associatif (Appel pour une école démocratique). A publié récemment La pertinence de l'escargot. En route vers la décroissance (avec Jean Cornil) aux éditions Sang de la Terre (2013), et Garrett List, la musique et l'avenir, aux éditions Jacques Flament (2014).

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School digitization, the Faustian/excellence pact

« Notre principal effort est de veiller à ce que tout le monde puisse suivre le rythme des changements et à ce que personne ne soit mis de côté lorsque les exigences du travail changent. »Olaf Scholtz, chancelier...

Do you like or dislike wok(e) cooking?

« Le wokisme est un utopisme dont les méthodes sont celles du terrorisme intellectuel à couverture morale » Pierre-André Taguieff Élément du discours progressiste : « Puisque les conservateurs sont contre...

The train of false consciousness

Adhoc Aujourd’hui, le débat politique devient un exercice pénible, quand les protagonistes s’accusent mutuellement de verser dans la confusion idéologique. Le sociologue marxiste Joseph Gabel (1912-2004)...

The political evolution in the West

Philippe Debongnie In Kairos No. 30 (Summer 2017), I proposed an analysis-synthesis of recent political developments in the West (Europe and North America, mainly). After the covidian episode, it's time to take stock....

The avatars of climate skepticism

Un bref aperçu historique (et subjectif) « [Pourtant] le projet écologique n’a qu’un but : mettre en échec une entreprise totalitaire d’autant plus dangereuse qu’englobant la planète, à la différence...

Consolidating the third front

Julie Dall-Arche Le moment d’un premier bilan politique de la folie covidiste est venu. Nous avons tous été sidérés par l’offensive politico-médiatique dès le premier confinement-enfermement en mars...

Cordon sanitaire and strangulation

"If democratic societies today (or what remains of them) are not so much threatened by the totalizing character of ideological constraint as by the risk of a generalized indifferentiation of beliefs, practices and...

On the « rise of the extreme right

Philippe Debongnie Tout « (re)monte », de nos jours, les courbes de contamination comme l’extrême droite ! Ressassée dans les médias et les conversations, la « montée de l’extrême droite » est un...

The invention of « confusionism » contributes to the confusion

« Tu es fasciste parce que tu es bête, autoritaire, incapable d’observer la réalité, esclave de quelques principes qui te semblent si inébranlablement justes qu’ils sont devenus une foi. »Pier Paolo Pasolini «...

Raoul Hedebouw in the land of anti-productivism…

We met with Raoul Hedebouw, federal deputy of the Belgian Labour Party (PTB). While it is obvious that we agree on certain points of analysis and possible solutions, it is no less obvious that various observations...

Biomimicry to the rescue of the world?

The inextricable nature of the global systemic crisis forces us to cogitate, then to act, both with relevance and urgency. Difficult exercise! After sustainable development, prosperity without growth, the transition...

RIO +20

The first Rio Summit in 1992 was considered an extraordinary advance in human planetary consciousness. And yet... Even if many institutions around the world pride themselves on having followed Agenda 21 to a greater...

RADIOSCOPY OF TERRORISM

" [...] totalitarianism, in its "minimum", is not necessarily terrorist. " Marc Weinstein On March 9, the War Museum of Bastogne and the association Tempora organized the conference "Terrorism: are we at war? Given...

TIC(E) : THE PASSAGE IN FORCE

Let's start this article with a true cliché. In terms of "progress", the United States continues to set the pace: some 40 states have decided to make handwriting instruction optional in elementary school; instead,...

Preludes to transition. Why change the world?

Christian Araud's name was already known as a contributor to the journal Entropia (in issues 4 & 7). Here he is signing two books. The first one is a testimony of his professional life, of the events that led...

WHAT REVOLUTION DO WE NEED?

MICHEL WEBER, "DE QUELLE RéVOLUTION AVONS-NOUS BESOIN?", éDITIONS SANG DE LA TERRE, PARIS, 2013, 281 PAGES Director of the Centre for Practical Philosophy in Brussels, Michel Weber (born 1963) is a specialist...

The doctor who treated the radio sets.

British anthropologist Michael Singleton (b. 1939), now Professor Emeritus at UCL, is well known to growth objectors, particularly for his contributions to the journal Entropia. The collective work presented here...

APED’s 10 proposals for a democratic school

On the occasion of its tenth anniversary in 2006, the Appel pour une école démocratique (APED) drew up a ten-point program designed to halt the Belgian school disaster, which is characterized by by three lines....

Authority, when you don’t hold us any more

"The most significant symptom of the crisis, and one that indicates its depth and seriousness, is that it has spread to the pre-political spheres, such as the upbringing and instruction of children, where authority,...

Requiem for the human species

After Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Yves Cochet and Hugues Stoeckel, we can add the name of the Australian philosopher Clive Hamilton to the list of catastrophist authors. His Requiem for the Human Species is a summit of the...

THE ANTHROPOCENE EVENT

Christophe Bonneuil & Jean-Baptiste Fressoz, The Anthropocene Event. Earth, History, and Us, ed. du Seuil, 2013, 304 pages. In 2000, during a famous conference, the Nobel Prize of chemistry Paul Crutzen pronounced...

THE LIFE OF EUROPE UNDER THE MICROSCOPE

In the world of activism, there are still angry issues. To approach them is to take the risk of quickly increasing the tension, to the point of abusing certain friendships. Emotion then takes precedence over reason...

What should we be afraid of?

"...] it happens to man that he would rather wallow in fear than face the anguish of being himself. "Cioran, 1957. For a long time I have been interested in the notion of theheuristic of fear proposed by Hans Jonas:...

THE END OF THE FREE MARKET AND THE LAWS OF HISTORY? DIALOGUE NOTES

"Philosophers like Condorcet, Marx, Hegel, Comte, did not understand that the historical becoming "unfolds but does not progress", that it is at worst a chain of catastrophes, at best "a parade of dead ends, a succession...

WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO WORK DURING THE DOWNWARD TRANSITION?

"What are we going to invent and offer to our consumption, to allow us to have a foolish job?" François Partant Among the bones of contention frequently raised in debates on degrowth is the question of work....

PERILOUS TECHNOLATRY

"It seems highly probable that, when the technicist civilization will have still increased its hold, when the techniques of the new environment will have acted on some generations, the manners of thinking, of reasoning...

NEWS OF THE COLLAPSE: ACTION, COMRADES!

The question of the collapse of the thermo-industrial society, whether it is its presumed imminence, its modalities or even its reality, always divides the ecologists. If it is hardly conceivable to call oneself...

DOUBT AMONG ECONOMISTS

The theme of the 21st Congress of Economists - "Growth: realities and perspectives " - could only arouse my curiosity and perhaps reassure me: finally the question is percolating in people's minds. The event took...

DID YOU SAY IRREVERSIBLE?

the notion of irreversibility is high on the list of received ideas. Thus, we often hear that economic globalization and the Internet are irreversible phenomena. The cliché is everywhere, from the left to the right,...

THE LOST CAUSE OF CLIMATE SKEPTICS

"Like the great moral catastrophes of the twentieth century, the major catastrophe that bars our horizon will be less the result of men's malignancy, or even their stupidity, than of their absence of thought." Jean-Pierre...

THE « POLITICAL » EVOLUTION IN THE WEST

"Liberalism is not the antonym of totalitarianism: it is its root."Marc Weinstein As if it were good news, philosophers and scientists are announcing that we are heading towards ever more complexity, in all fields,...

MODERNITY, POSTMODERNITY. WHERE DOES DEGROWTH FIT IN?

At first glance, the philosophical divide between modernity and postmodernity seems to be heard. According to Jean-Marie Domenach, modernity is "a 'regulating idea' (or deregulatory idea), a culture, a state of mind...

THE CLASS STRUGGLE AND ITS FUTURE

"The men of the rich class are so well aware of their privileged situation that, when it is a question of improving the lot of the workers, they hasten, conscious of their role as masters, to present projects of...

REY, WEBER AND HUNYADI DEBUNK TRANSHUMANISM

Visible on the Web since the middle of the previous decade, revealed by the extralucid activism of Pièces et Main d'Oeuvre, the file of transet posthumanism is the object of an intense editorial activity from which...

Media watchdogs: an appetizer

The documentary Ceci n'est pas un complot, by Bernard Crutzen, as soon as it was posted on the Web, aroused the wrath of the journalistic profession, except that no one, to my knowledge, dared to call him a c...,...

WHAT TO DO WITH INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM?

"We have become the degenerate children of a voluntarism without ethics, but with a label: "freedom". " André Guigot "An ethic, ecologically speaking, is a limit imposed on the freedom to act in the struggle...

SECTARIAN MILITANCY

I believed in activism, I still do, but with a new lucidity brought by experience and current events. Depending on the individual, activism can mean : finding a meaning to one's life, making social links, expressing...

VISIT TO THE « ASSISES OF ATTENTION », PARIS, FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Who would have bet a kopek that attention, this so natural human faculty, would have been the subject of a specific conference in 2020? However, on February 1st, this was the case in Paris, where the first "Assises...

ADDITIONAL THOUGHTS ON TRANSHUMANISM AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

The general media deal quite regularly with artificial intelligence (AI) and transhumanism, in a tone either dithyrambic or gently critical, but rarely alarmist. What about it? The first one is based on the will...

TRANSMISSION FAILURE

"...in the contemporary family in industrialized countries, the skills, not only of the father but of both parents, become obsolete during their lifetime, making it of little interest to them to pass them on to their...

IN CONCLUSION: THE HEALTH ALIBI

"No one has the right to own that on which the lives of others depend - whether socially, morally or ecologically. And no one has the right to design, use, or impose on society private technologies capable of harming...

DIGITAL SCHOOL: COVID-19 CHANGES (ALMOST) NOTHING

"We should also accelerate the trend toward distance learning, which is being tested today like never before."Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, in the Wall StreetJournal Since the beginning of this "crisis", I have heard...

A return of collective values in the New Viral Age?

"To maintain order while spreading chaos, to institute in the same movement endemic global insecurity and a state of emergency in perpetuity, to produce exclusion and the incarceration of exclusion, this is what...

All on the same boat

"...the state of the planet is a problem and it is everyone's problem.We have all contributed to it in different ways and it is taking us all down with it. "Sandrine Aumercier Let's continue our critique of the...

The submissive individualist

"It is pitiful to hear the political and ethical authorities appeal to the responsibility of citizens after having inoculated them for years with an individualistic culture,Roland Gori Holy late modernity, you never...

What to do with individual freedom?

"Between the catastrophe and the planetary totalitarianism intended to avoid it,What is the margin of our freedom? In Kairos n° 41, I addressed the question of individual freedom in a world constrained by the...

What happened to the counter-culture?

" [Il y a un] paradoxical link between modernism and the counter-culture of the 1960s and 1970s, which was trivialized and integrated into the dominant culture, leading to the hegemony of "cultural leftism", to...

The left, coronavirus and death. Interview with Jean-François Gava.

Settling scores at O.K. Covid Like Nietzsche, Jean-François Gava, occasional contributor to Kairos The author of this book, who is also a professor of philosophy at the University of Montreal, uses a hammer...

Covid: another missed opportunity for the left

Ninon Mazeaud "The multiple partial conflicts that make up the fabric of social existence seem less and less likely to be related to a central macro-conflict, so that the right and the left, which were the agents...

1) Covid in the light of other experiences: GDR, Romania, Chile

Louis Trouveroy " I am worried about the totalitarianism under the pretext of health, which is growing stronger every week ", I confided last September to an acquaintance sitting on the terrace of the Café Randaxhe,...