The Ecosophy of Félix Guattari: Views from the South

Abstract

In the context of the ecological debate of the 1980s, Félix Guattari formulates his ecosophy, a response to the warning of climate change, but above all to the production of subjectivity in Integrated World Capitalism. It is the elaboration of an expanded notion of ecology and the eminently practical roots of his political reflection that distinguish this proposal. This article seeks to resituate ecosophy in the current political and ecological debate. To this end, it begins by analyzing the crisis of the production of subjectivity in current capitalism, a problem that has repercussions not only in the psychological sphere, but also in the social and environmental, forcing the construction of an ecology that transversally integrates such registers. Later, the review of Guattari's visit to Chile will allow us to analyze the tensions that nourish the political and ethical scope of the ecosophical practice. Finally, the analysis of Guattari's link with Latin America will allow us to understand the impact of his fieldwork on the conception of the aesthetic paradigm that sustains ecosophy as a response to the desire for catastrophe expanded by the discourses on the crisis.