Chaosmosis: An Ethicoaesthetic Paradigm


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Chaosmosis an ethico-aesthetic paradigm Felix Guattari translated by Paul Bains and Julian Pefanis INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS BLOOMINGTON & INDIANAPOLIS English translation © 1995, Power Institute, Paul Bains, and Julian Pefanis On the planking, on the ship's bulwarks, on the Chaosmosis was originally published in French as Chaosmose. © 1992, Editions Galilee sea, with the course of the sun through the sky All rights reserved script takes shape, takes shape and destroys itself at the same slow pace - shadows, spines, shafts of broken light refocused in the angles, No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses' Resolutions on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Guattari, Felix. [Chaosmose. English] Chaosmosis : an ethico-aesthetic paradigm / Felix Guattari; translated by Paul Bains and Julian Pefanis. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-253-32945-0 (alk. paper). -ISBN 0-253-21004-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Psychoanalysis-Philosophy. 2. Subjectivity. I. Title. BF175.G81313 95 1995 -31401 194-dc2O 12345009998979695 and the ship, an unreadable and wrenching the triangles of a fleeting geometry that yields to the shadow of the ocean waves. And then, unceasingly, lives again. Marguerite Duras The North China Lover Contents 1 On the production of subjectivity 2 Machinic heterogenesis 33 3 Schizoanalytic metamodelisation 58 4 Schizo chaosmosis 77 5 Machinic orality and virtual ecology 88 6 The new aesthetic paradigm 98 7 The ecosophic object 119 1 On the production of subjectivity My professional activities in the field of psychotherapy, like my political and cultural engagements, have led me increasingly to put the emphasis on subjectivity as the product of individuals, groups and institutions. Considering subjectivity from the point of view of its production does not imply any return to traditional systems of binary determination - material infrastructure/ideological superstructure. The various semiotc registers that combine to engender subjectivity do not maintain obligatory hierarchical relations fixed for all time. Sometimes, for example, economic semiotisation becomes dependent on collective psychological factors - look at the sensitivity of the stock exchange to fluctuations of opinion. Subjectivity is in fact plural and polyphonic - to use Mikhail Bakhtin's expression. It recognises no dominant or determinant instance guiding all other forms according to a univocal causality. At least three types of problem prompt us to enlarge the definition of subjectivity beyond the classical opposition between individual subject and society, and in so doing, revise the models of the unconscious currently in circulation: the irruption of Chaosmosis On the production of subjectivity subjective factors at the forefront of current events, the massive development of machinic productions of subjectivity and, finally, the recent prominence of ethological and ecological perspectives on human subjectivity.
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