By Felix Guattari
Extending the definition of ecology to surround social kinfolk and human subjectivity in addition to environmental matters, The 3 Ecologies argues that the ecological crises that threaten our planet are the direct results of the growth of a brand new kind of capitalism and new ecosophical strategy needs to be chanced on which respects the diversities among all dwelling platforms. a strong critique of capitalism and a manifesto for a brand new mind set, the booklet is additionally a fantastic advent to the paintings of 1 of Europe's so much radical thinkers.
This version features a chronology of Guattari's lifestyles and paintings, introductions to either his common philosophy and to the paintings itself, and prolonged notes to the unique text.
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6 The current situation is aIl the more paradoxical as the time is almost over when the world was placed under the aegis of an East-West antagonism, a largely imaginary projection of working-class/middle-class oppositions within capitalist countries. 7 Does this rnean that the new, multipolar issues of the three ecologies will simply take the place of the old class THE THREE EOOLOGIES struggles and their myths of reference? Of course, such a substitution will not be automatic! But it nevertheless appears probable that these issues, which correspond to an extrerne complexification of social, econornic and international contexts, will increasingly come to the foreground.
This evolution ought to make us reflect upon the ways in which earlier forms of capitalism operated, given that they too were not exempt from this same tendency towards the capitalization of subjective power, both at the level of the capitalist élites as weIl as among the proletariat. However, the 47 THE THREE ECOLOGIES true importance of this propensity within capitalism was never fully demonstrated, with the result that it was not properly appreciated by theoreticians of the workers' movement.
RefusaI to face up to the erosion of the se three areas, as the media would have us do, verges on a strategic infantilization of opinion and a destructive neutralization of dernocracy. We need to 'kick the habit' of sedative discourse, 41 THE THREE ECOLOGIES particularly the 'fix' of television, in order to be able to apprehend the world through the interchangeable lenses or points of view of the three ecologies. Chernobyl and AIDS have dramatically revealed to us the limits of humanity' s techno-scientific power and the 'backlash' that 'nature' has in store for us.