I am very fond of this short article, and it motivates me to pick up some of Guattari's work that was not part of his collaboration with philosopher Gilles Deleuze. The author of these notes states, "Heterogenesis is a process of continuous resingularisation – individual and collective subjectivies ‘pull out’ without a thought for collective aims, for creative expression. Resingularisation means that individuals, organisations and professions become more united and increasingly different – difference multiplies – and creatively autonomous." and I find it a very subtle part of Guattari's overarching intention of looking for solutions amidst a range of creative singularities, rather than overbearing homogenous forms. Various forms of value and terms of contribution, varying routines and fabrics, and a less restricted bureaucratic framework would send the individual into a pursuit of their own self-management and the development of their own mental ecology, socius, and the creation of miniature ecosystems around them and their pursuits. Think of a capitalism of dynamic value rather than of stable value, a capitalism whose avenues and circuitous behaviours were shifted in favor of a heavy flux that maintained it in an unsteady but self-maintaining equilibrium. Finally, a quote from Guattari: “Rather than remaining subject, in periphery, to the seductive efficiency of economy competition, we must reappropriate Universes of value, so that processes of singularisation can rediscover their consistency. We need new social and aesthetic practices, new practices of the Self in relation to the other, to the foreign, the strange – a whole programme that seems far removed from current concerns. And yet, ultimately, we will only escape from the major crises of our era through the articulation of
A nascent subjectivity
A constantly mutating socius
An environment in the process of being reinvented” (p 45)
