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In his prescient, 1989 extended manifesto, Les trois écologies (The Three Ecologies), Felix Guattari makes a prolonged plea: any response to the end-times of ecological devastation must be transversal, and that transversality must navigate the interstices of the social, the psychic/conceptual and the environmental. The three ecologies: “a nascent subjectivity; a constantly mutating socius; an environment in the process of being reinvented.” Transversality cuts from the angle of the unforeseen to trouble the field from the edges in. The three ecologies in transversality means how the social bends the conceptual, how the environmental catches sociality in the making, how the conceptual is activated in the field…

Learning Philosophy for Three Ecologies, Erin Manning. pdf