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democratie ecologique"3G ("Towards a New Ecological Democracy" )<br />

in which he noted with satisfaction that an increasing majority of<br />

public opinion now perceived the ecologists as the only ones capable<br />

of problematizing the crucial questions of the time in an innovative<br />

way. Ecologists potentially incarnated another way of doing politics,<br />

more in touch with daily realities and at the same time connected<br />

to global issues. He regretted that the two components of this<br />

current, still known for their probity, were overly patterned on the<br />

model of traditional political parties: "It appears necessary that the<br />

living components which exist within each one of these movements<br />

organize among themselves in connection with the associative<br />

movement."3<br />

In the work Guattari published in 1989, he defined ecosophy38<br />

as the necessary articulation between the political and ethical<br />

dimensions of three registers: the questions of the environment, of<br />

social relations, and of the subjective dimension. All through his<br />

life can be found a concern to account for modes of subjectification<br />

in relation to their points of insertion in modernity. Acknowledging<br />

that technological advancements were making it possible to free<br />

time for humanity, he wondered how this freedom could be used.<br />

He also insisted, in the era of the worldwide market, that the scale<br />

of analysis be global. A new ethicoaesthetic paradigm would have<br />

for ambition to think through the three registers of mental ecology,<br />

social ecology, and environmental ecology. As always, his method<br />

remained transversal and bent on highlighting in each case which<br />

potential vectors of subjectification would allow the blossoming<br />

of various forms of singularization. Thanks to data processing<br />

revolutions and the rise of biotechnologies, Guattari believed that<br />

"new methods of subjectification were about to be born."39 He<br />

kept avoiding any type of Cassandra complex and predicting the<br />

worst catastrophes to come, or writing a jeremiad on this world<br />

that we leave behind; quite the contrary, he was pleased with the

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