Refreshingly and edgy, Novella Carpenter tells her story about urban agriculture in her work Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer that she experienced in Oakland, California. In order to prove that city life as well as fresh and healthy food are reconcilable, and possible for anyone,...

Western thought, as much as the Greek thought from which it stems, is ontological. It isolates, it defined, it circumscribes.  For this reason, it is unable to think transitions and transformation. Chinese thought, however, because it did not take the stand of the being, can enable us to apprehend...

This thesis raises the question of the "imaginary of work", that is to say, the sense and value that we subjectively associate to this notion. A historical overview of different philosophical discourse delivered on the subject since antiquity allows initially us to affirm the historicity of the...

Simone Weil had the personal will to know the Labor condition from inside. She spent one year working in industry as a laborer in order to actually experience the Labor condition. She wrote everything down: the physical harshness of the work, the moral impact of working cadence, the unfair balance...

These four scenarios are archetypical worlds which are associated with different work and values of work. They are always consistent, logical and enlightening if we look for a sharper analysis of the current work market and modern capitalism. The scenarios play with the three main dimension of work...