Felix Guattari - The Three Ecologies
Social ecology, mental ecology, and environmental ecology
“brutal deterritorialization of the Third World, which simultaneously affects the cultural texture of populations, and devastates both climate and human immune defences”
“introjection of repressive power by the oppressed themselves. The principal difficulty here relates to the way in which unions and parties which are, in theory, struggling to defend the interests of the workers and the oppressed, reproduce pathogenic models which stifle freedom of expression and innovation in their own organizations”
“imperative to confront the effects of capitalist power on the mental ecology of daily life, whether individual, domestic, conjugal, neighbourly, creative, or personal-ethical”
“Capitalism seeks to gain power by controlling and neutralizing the maximum possible number of subjectivity’s existential refrains; capitalistic subjectivity is intoxicated with and anaesthetized by a collective sense of pseudo-eternity”
“If social and political practices are to be set back on their feet, we need to work for humanity, rather than simply for a permanent re- equilibration of the capitalist semiotic universe”
“All the indicators suggest that the increased productivity engendered by current technological revolutions will continue to rise exponentially”
Gregory Bateson - research
“I am not so naive and Utopian as to claim that there might be an analytical methodology guaranteed to eradicate the most deeply ingrained phantasms of reification of women, immigrants, the mad; nor that we might ultimately abolish either penal or psychiatric institutions. But it does seem to me that a generalization of the experiences of institutional analysis (in the hospital, the school, the urban environment … ) could profoundly shift the terms of the problem of mental ecology. A fundamental reconstruction of social mechanisms is necessary if we are to confront the ravages produced by integrated world capitalism”
“Computerization in particular has unleashed the potential for new forms of ‘exchange’ of value, new collective negotiations, whose ultimate product will be more individual, more singular, more dissensual forms of social action”
“Increasingly in future, the maintenance of natural equilibria will be dependent upon human intervention; the time will come, for example, when massive programmes will have to be set in train to regulate the relationship between oxygen, ozone, and carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere. In this perspective, environmental ecology could equally well be re-named 'machinic ecology’, since both cosmic and human practice are nothing if not machinic - indeed they are machines of war, in so far as 'Nature’ has always been at war with life! But however we name it, the race to conquer the mechano-sphere will have to begin imminently, if we are to deal with such immediate and simultaneous issues as the acceleration of techno-scientific 'progress’, and the massive growth surge in the global population”
“Even the human creation of new plant and animal species looms unavoidably on the horizon; the urgent task we face is, then, to fashion an ethics appropriate to a scenario that is both terrifying and fascinating, and, more importantly, a politics appropriate to the general destiny of humanity”
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