Felix Guattari's Schizoanalytic Ecology

• Affirms Guattari as an important voice in contemporary ecology and as a not-yet-fully acknowledged nodal point in the creation of that ecology
• With case studies of Guattari’s reading of Balthus paintings, his theory of architecture and his reading of Proust
• Traces the potential of schizoecology for the fields of architecture, the visual arts, literature, politics and ethics

To look at a situation ecologically means to analyse and administer it with the practical aim of creating a space in which it is possible to actualise viable modes of life. To create a multiplicitous, open and elastic milieu that is conducive to processes of both individuation and singularisation. Hanjo Berressem covers the whole range of Guattari’s solo work, as well as the books co-authored with Gilles Deleuze. The core of his argument is developed through a rigorous explication and analysis of Guattari’s Schizoanalytic Cartographies. This reveals an ecological ontology developed from key concepts such as the informal diagram, the abstract machine and transversality, which is based on the conceptual complementarity of the world (the given) and its creatures (the giving).