ABSTRACT
Ecology is often said to be a domain of study where technocrats take care of
carbon dioxide emissions, turn ever-growing piles of garbage into sources of
renewable energy, and devise means of reducing the growing acidification of
the oceans. New technologies are awaited to remedy all ills independently of
how humans choose to domesticate the earth. Others, such as Félix Guattari,
the philosopher and psychiatrist of the generation of 1968, contend that we first
have to change our ways of thinking and, in an engaging formulation of his own
signature, of being in the singular or in a group in order to address problems
of nature. I will take another retrospective (and, hopefully, prospective) look at
Guattari’s revolutionary essay, The Three Ecologies (2000; Les Trois Écologies,
1989) by bringing attention to singular and group subjects and, given the theme
of this volume, to architecture both in a concrete and metaphorical sense.
