Chaosophy - autonomous learning

of what Guattari, since 1980, had defined as CMI (World Integrated
Capitalism). In Liberation in 1987, Guattari presented what
he conceived as "the new worlds of capitalism": 49 one of the main
features of postindustrialist capitalism, also called CMI, was to
transfer the productive structures of commodities and services onto
structures productive of signs and subjectivity, though the media,
surveys, and advertisements.
From these reflections on a world which had been shifting
momentously after the fractures of 1989, Guattari would provide
one last synthesis, written just a few weeks before his death. It was
a published posthumously by Le Monde diplomatique in its October
1992 issue.5o With this contribution, Guattari meant to shake the
increasing passivity of a world busy looking at its destiny flickering
on the screen as if it had no more grip on it. And yet current
mutations would make it possible to set up new collective assemblages
of enunciation affecting the entire social fabric, family,
school, districts ... He reasserted on this occasion a conception
which he hoped to never cease elaborating on until it became an
accepted truth, that of plural humanity-an expression from
Bernard Lahire-of a humanity pertaining to a multiplicity of
cities, to borrow the model from Luc Boltanski and Laurent
Thevenot. "What I intend to stress is the fundamentally pluralist,
multicentered, heterogeneous character of contemporary subjectivity,
in spite of the homogenization which objectifies through
mass-mediatization. In this respect, an individual is already a
'collective' of heterogeneous components."5l Fordist and Taylorist
conceptions were increasingly being surpassed by postindustrial
society, whereas new collective assemblages of labor could be
thought anew based on the transversalities still accessible through
the remainder of the city activities. Guattari warned us about the
urgency of answering these new challenges, as otherwise the repercussions
of inertia could be cruel and destructive: "Absent the