Culture of resistance

Resources to resist

"Ah, but those were the best moments, weren't they? We were all so happy then. Really. We will never be this happy again, will we? Never."

— Celia Sánchez, Cuban revolutionary guerrilla recalling the dangers and difficulties encountered in the Sierra Maestra.

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Documentaries, interviews & conferences

End:Civ

A documentary film directed by Franklin Lopez that looks at the ecologically destructive and self-destructive nature of industrial civilization, as well as its highly coercive social nature.

Planet of the Humans

Documentary film produced by Michael Moore exposing the ecological implications of so-called “green”, “clean” or “renewable” energies that have no other use than to maintain the ultra-destructive modern lifestyle based on the techno-industrial system.

Mining rush in the 21st century: how far will the limits be pushed?

Illuminating conference by the geological engineer Aurore Stéphant on the ecological disaster resulting from mining, an industry that is the basis of all modern comforts and technologies.

Survivalism: danger or necessity?

Excellent interview with Joël Schuermans, editor in chief of Survival magazine, who demystifies survivalism and attacks the stereotypes spread by the media and progressive influencers about the autonomy movement.

The transition will not take place!

Interesting interview with the historian of science, technology and the environment Jean-Baptiste Fressoz. He explains why the energy/ecological/carbon transition is an intellectual scam, a denial of the history of industrial society and its use of energy.

You can't stop progress

What if we stopped the progress? Excellent interview with the technical historian François Jarrige who shows how technical progress has always met with opposition and why technological development is not inevitable.

Look at the light my pretty ones

An interesting independent documentary showing the physiological, social and ecological damage of the digital industry.

iHuman — Artificial intelligence and us

This film broadcast by Arte focuses on artificial intelligence and its implications for the future of the human species.

Unbolt the Megamachine

On October 22, 2021, at the Salle du Sénéchal, in Toulouse, at the initiative of Atecopol (L'Atelier d'Ecologie Politique de Toulouse), the philosopher Aurélien Berlan came to present the theses of his book entitled “Earth and Freedom”.

Forget shorter showers

Excellent, concise and lucid video inspired by a text by Derrick Jensen criticizing small gestures and ineffective methods of activism that have no other use than to give yourself a good conscience.
Other recommended movies and documentaries

Welcome to the Machine, by Avi Zev Weider

Man ate the Earth, documentary Arte

“Technical progress: solution or ideology? ”, an enlightening one-hour interview with the technical historian François Jarrige

Bright Green Lies by Julia Barnes

The hidden face of green energies (inspired by an essay by journalist Guillaume Pitron)

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Recommended (french) associations, sites & blogs

Understand

Critique of technology

Jacques Ellul Association

Technologos Association (technocritical thinking circle)

Raise Your Eyes Association (raising awareness of the overexposure of young people to screens)

Regressism — Suicide or Revolution

Greenwashing Economy — Resisting sustainable brainwashing

Criticism of science and scientism

Critical sciences — “Science is too important to be left in the hands of scientists alone.” (Carl E. Sagan)

And you haven't seen anything yet... Critique of science and ordinary scientism

Resist

Strategic proposals

Green Resistance — Societal criticism and activist strategies

Flowerings — Culture of resistance

Strategic proposals

Local struggles near you (see The fight map against large and useless projects)

Quest for autonomy

Desertion

You are not alone — Participate in the ecological offensive from your professional position

Desertion Office

Peasant autonomy

L'Atelier paysan

The Frontier

Lands of links

Post-urban ecological society

The archipelago of the Living

Human diversity, a source of inspiration

Survival International, an NGO that fights for the rights of indigenous peoples

Sustenance — the medium that explores autonomy

Post-urban ecological society

The archipelago of the Living

Survivalism

Wood people, Kim Pasche's website

The Survivologist, podcast by David Manise

Primitive Technology, a YouTube channel to learn how to build and manufacture without using tools or materials from modern technology.

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Reading tips

Authoritarian technique and democratic technique

—
Lewis Mumford

To put an end to big cities

—
Guillaume Faburel

The digital idiot's factory

—
Michel Desmurget

Technology or the challenge of the century

—
Jacques Ellul

Green growth versus nature

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Hélène Tordjman

Anti-Tech Revolution

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Theodore J. Kaczynski

Universal poisoning

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Fabrice Nicolino

Full Spectrum Resistance

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Aric McBay

Homo Comfort

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Stefano Boni

Taking Earth back from the machines

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L'Atelier Paysan

The eye of the State

—
James C. Scott

The Obsolescence of Man

—
Günther Anders

The police of the future

—
Mathieu Rigouste

The invention of science

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Guillaume Carnino

Electric servitude

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Gerard Dubey, Alain Gras

Industrial society and its future

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Theodore J. Kaczynski

Techno-criticisms

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François Jarrige

Get out of the mud

—
Cedric Chastelier

Land and freedom

—
Aurélien Berlan

Terror and possession

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Parts and Labor

Technological slavery

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Theodore J. Kaczynski

Civilized to death

—
Christopher Ryan

The animal and death

—
Charles Stepanoff

Living beings are not machines

—
Bertrand Louard

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Music

Rap

Monkeys in the Eiffel Tower

Zippo, an anticiv rapper

Dooz Kawa — An ode to the state

An enlightening song about the State

Keny Arkana — Wild Nature

In Praise of the Savages, by Keny Arkana.

CLIP D1ST1 x BILAR x EL LOCO Wave 1 “The War” Rap Yellow Vest

Protest rap in support of the Yellow Vests.

Electro

MINA SANG - Sabotage

A song about sabotage and the war on the technological system.

Variety

Zoufris Maracas — The electricity fairy

A song against the electricity fairy.

Henri Salvador - The Water Thieves

A very beautiful song that denounces industrial carnage and talks about armed resistance.

mickey3d - Breathe 2020 (feat. Bigflo & Oli)

France Gall - Unplug

“Unplug, unplug, unplug everything. Let's get back to ourselves. Unplug everything.”

Boris Vian — The lament of progress

Metal & Punk

Storm of Sedition - Decivilize

An anticiv punk band.

CORROSION OF CONFORMITY - The Luddite

A song by the band Corrosion of Conformity calling for the Luddite revolt: “Technology burns when the Luddite returns” 🤘

Songs, for a culture that emancipates the technological system

The song of the supporters

The anthem of the French Resistance during the Second World War. Words can be viewed here.

Those of the Maquis 🇫🇷 Historical song

Another song of the French Resistance.
Other revolutionary songs with their lyrics
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Movies & TV shows

Movies

Woman at War

“Halla, in her fifties, declares war on the local aluminum industry, which is disfiguring her country. She takes every risk to protect the Highlands of Iceland...”

Modern times

A cult film that is very critical of industrial modernity and the generalized stupidities it generates.

V for Vendetta

V for Vendetta, a revolution in a technomonde not so far from ours.

Welcome to Gattaca

Welcome to Gattaca, a fiction about eugenics as it could be organized by the technological system.

Animated

Princess Mononoke

A beautiful film about the defense of nature against industrial development.

The King and the Bird

The story of a fight against a technologist monarchy

serials

Black Mirror

Short stories to think about the potential and terrifying impact of ongoing technological developments.

The collapse

A fictional collapse of our society that stimulates critical thinking about our total dependence and submission to the technological system.

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