The Three Ecologies Felix Guattari

p.19-20  (o)nly an ethico-political articulation-- which I call ecosophy-- between the three ecological registers (the environment,  social relations and human subjectivity) would be like to clarify these questions.

p.21  Initially the class antagonisms that were inherited from the nineteenth century contributed to the creation of homogeneous, bipolarized fields of subjectivity. Then, during the second half of the twentieth century, the hardline worker subjectivity crumbled with the advent of the consumer society, the welfare system, the media, etc…. A vague sense of social belonging has deprived the old class consciousness of its tension… For their part, the so-called socialist countries have steadily introjected the "unidimensionalizing" value systems of the West. Therefore, in the communist world the old facade of egalitarianism is giving way to mass-media serialism (the same ideal standards of living, the same fashions and types of rock music, etc.).

p.23 If it is no longer a question-- as it was in previous periods of class struggle or the defense of the "fatherland of socialism"-- of creating an unequivocal ideology, it is conceivable, on the other hand, that the new ecosophical example indicates the lines of reconstruction of human praxis in the most varied domains. At every level, individual or collective, in everyday life as well as the reinvention of democracy (concerning town planning, artistic creation, sport, etc.), it is a question in each instance of looking into what would be the dispositives of the production of subjectivity, which tends towards an individual and/or collective resingularization, rather than that of mass-media manufacture, which is synonymous with distress and despair.

p.30 (t)he three ecologies are governed by a different logic to that of ordinary communication between speakers and listeners which has nothing to do with the intelligibility of discursive sets, or the indeterminate interlocking of fields of signification…. while the logic of discursive sets endeavors to completely delimit its objects, the logic of intensities, or eco-logic, is concerned only with the movement and intensity of evolutive processes. Process, which I oppose here to system or to structure, strives to capture existence in the very act of its constitution, definition and deterritorialization. This process of "fixing-into-being" relates only to expressive subsets that have broken out of their totalizing frame and have begun to work on their own account, overcoming their referential sets and manifesting themselves as their own existential indices, processual lines of flight.
Ecological praxes strive to scout out the potential vectors of subjectification and singularization at each partial existential locus. They generally seek something that runs counter to  the "normal" order of things, a counter-repetition, an intensive given which invokes other intensities to form new existential configurations…. At the heart of all ecological praxes there is an a-signifying rupture, in which the catalysts of existential change are close at hand, but lack expressive support from the assemblage of enunciation.

Molecular Red: Theory for the Anthropocene (McKenzie Wark)

p. 65    Detournement

p.125 Ernst Mach   mediation--sensations-- not reducible to subjective senses /impressions
         What is the activity that chunks sensations into an index of some object, on the one hand, and as traces via which a subject might come to assert its own separateness, on the other?

p. 138         (Alexander Bogdanov) seemed to accept that bloom carries differences, but advocated the sharing of blood to overcome them. Rather than be prey to the vampire of capital, labor shares among its own, as if the brotherhood of man could be made physically so through blood exchanges.


p.144  The "mutation" of the private property form into strictly controlled "intellectual property" makes whole new classes of things available for commodification.
A patent defines what is nature and what is not…. Patent is a site of struggle over what counts as subject and what as object.

James Boyle,  The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind

p.147  reading of Donna Haraway

Perhaps it would be possible to sense a web of human and nonhuman agents, more a mechanically and digitally reproducible compound eye than a single labor point of view.
Perhaps this point of view could be broader than that of labor, and not separate, out in advance, production from reproduction. Perhaps it could also include something a bit distant from either, a kind of activity that neither produces nor reproduces, but proposes other means of doing either, or neither,  or both. Could it even include the hacker class as a distinctive point of view not entirely reproducible to labor? One might start here with Bogdanov's notion of organization, rather than production, as a "basic" level of analysis, but look aslant at its unquestioned functionalism.

P. 150   Haraway  in Simians, Cyborgs, and Women p.176
  Humanistic Marxism was polluted at the source by its structuring ontological theory of the domination of nature in the self-construction of men and by its closely related impotence to historicize anything women did that didn't qualify for a wage.


p.151  for this is an era in which life itself has been disaggregated and brought under forms of molecular control. what makes that control possible is a whole series of technologies based on sciences whose object is not just on molecular but even the sub-atomic level. Rather than assert a claim to contemplate these transformations as if from the outside, what might actually be more useful is a way of accounting from the inside for the apparatus that produces us as cyborg beings in an Anthropocene time on a planet experiencing vast metabolic rifts.

p.152-55  Karen Barad      meet the University Halfway
diffraction    x-rays   as a method     non-representational

P. 162   What counts as agency? Agency is not something that humans or even nonhumans "have." It is not something that some possess and some do not. It's an effect of a situation, often a situation that includes an apparatus. For an agent to appear, there's a prior cut. The agent appears separate as an effect of a kind of "exteriority-within-phenomena."

Inter-actions       not agents exist before the actions

Alone Together Sherry Turkle

robot toys     such as Tamagotchi, Furby,  
Criteria for life P.27-28    animation animalism--- capacity to feel
p31  Tamagotchi turn children into caretakers
p.32  children became responsible parents   inability to turn off

p.150?--155   always on
           the new status of the self     tethered and marked absent