“The first necessity is not to lose one's life in working to satisfy unlimited desires”

Gaspar D’Allens

Aurélien Berlan (Paris, 1976), who divides his time between translation, part-time teaching, food production and political activism, likes to describe himself as a philosopher-gardener. The Barcelona publishing house Virus has just published Autonomía y subsistencia. Una teoría ecosocial y materialista de la libertad (Autonomy and Subsistence: An Eco-Social and Materialist Theory of Freedom, translated into Spanish from Terre et liberté. La quête d'autonomie contre le fantasme de délivrance, published in 2021 by La Lenteur), a stimulating essay that criticises the philosophical foundations of our modernity.... An interview.

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