The Ecological Breakdown: Five Centuries Of White Supremacy The most sensible outcome of five centuries of European colonialism and its ruthless extractive mercantilism is the collapse of the planet’s ecosystems on an unprecedented level. It is today unnecessary to make a case for climate change as its effects have been…

The Colonial Drain The world is globalized for centuries A very common narrative in today’s mainstream is that globalization started in the 20th century, therefore nationals need time to adapt to the encounter with foreigners. …

Binarist Thinking And The Dehumanization Of The ‘Other’ Western Europe after the Alhambra Decree (1492) is a totally different place than before. With a Bubonic Plague that killed most of the continent’s population a century before and a colonial structure ready to be deployed worldwide, it was only a matter…

A Short Essay On The Origins Of Whiteness And White Supremacy In order to understand whiteness, one has to tackle Aristotelian dualism. Aristotle is an ancient Athenian philosopher who has theorized the concept of “masters” (who could accidentally fall in slavery) and “natural slaves”, a dyadic perception of the world…

Migrations: a defining characteristic of humans In today’s modern state-nations, migrations are always depicted in the mainstream as a peculiar event that is not supposed to happen. …

Il existe trois types de pulsions qui régissent le monde des humains et dont les différents degrés de concentration et de manifestation définissent la personnalité d’un individu, la dynamique d’un groupe d’individus (une ville) ou d’une civilisation. Certaines sociétés ne connaissent, par exemple que deux des trois pulsions, d’autres valorisent…

There are three impulses that drive humans and whose intensity and ways of expression determine people’s behavior, culture and on a larger scale, the characteristics of what we call civilizations. Some societies only know two out of the three impulses while others value one over the two others. Few societies…

Our political representations are inherently influenced by the aftermath of the French Revolution. More recent representations have added an important accuracy layer to how we measure our political beliefs by decoupling the linear left/right axis into a social scale versus an economic scale. I would like to update the common…

La manière dont nous nous représentons nos positions politiques fait appel à un imaginaire hérité de la Révolution française. Des représentations plus modernes ont souhaité ajouter une nuance nécessaire en découplant l’axe droite/gauche en axe social versus axe économique. Ce que je voudrais apporter ici est une clé de compréhension…