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Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm

Paul Bains, Félix Guattari

The strongest opinion of Guattari, and subsequently Chaosmosis, that I can muster is that his pointed usage of lack-filling language arouses me. The conceptualization, of what I believe to be sets of vaguely determinate presuppositions, fulfills the man's assurance that these signifying words are merely shifters amidst not-yet-fully-realized social situations. Therefore, as complex as his compositions may be, I walk away 'feeling' his intent. Although theorists within the Continental tradition may prefer to be understood otherwise, I find some authors in this field, Guattari especially, capable of a great strength that is not subject to coherency but instead produces something phenomenological (e.g. an undefinable function of cognizance beyond all attempts of linguistic control). It is a weird philosophy. It may not be applicable, in fact, I do not entirely agree with Rhizomatic thought in general but I do champion his intention to find a subjectively apperceptable balance in ecological, mechanistic, and above all else, humanitarian relations. Guattari was one of many theorists bound up in a discourse that had believed itself to be capable of mass reform, which is why his progressive interest in the molecular remains an important shift away from deconstruction to intersubjective peculiarities.

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