Monday, June 20, 2016

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.

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