by FELIX GUATTARI
In the mists and miasmas that obscure the end of our millennium, the question of subjectivity returns now as a leitmotif. It is no more a natural given than air or water. How can we produce it, capture it, enrich it, and permanently reinvent it in ways that make it compatible with Universes of mutant value? How can we work toward its liberation — that is to say, its resingularization?
Psychoanalysis, institutional analysis, film, literature, poetry, innovative pedagogies, creative urban planning, and architecture — all disciplines will need to combine their creativity to ward off the ordeals of barbarism, mental implosion, and chaosmic spasm looming on the horizon, and to transform them into unpredictable richnesses and pleasures whose promises, moreover, are just as tangible.
Excerpt from Chaosmose by Félix Guattari, éditions galilée, Paris, 1992, translated from the french