Facilitating eco-logical futures through postformal poetic ecosophy

Bringing Deleuze and Guattari down to Earth through Gregory Bateson: Plateaus, Rhizomes and Ecosophical Subjectivity

“…Note 1. It is worth noting that Guattari's coining of 'ecosophy' seems to have happened almost simultaneously with but separately from that of Arne Naess (Hampson, 2010;Naess, 1989).…”

Eco-logical education for the long emergency

“…With respect to atomism, a host of atomistic types can be seen as forming part of the critique, implicating technicism, scientism, literalism, contracted individualism and ''disciplinism''; atomism can also be understood in relation to a nonliteralist interpretation of economism in that atomism suffers from an undue constriction or ''economy'' of thought [31]. Technicism involves the undue prioritisation of technology, including the dissociation of technology from larger social purpose; it also unduly deprioritises analogical modes of thought over digital ones.…”

“…At the policy level, economism indicates an undue emphasis on economic policy in relation to social and environmental policy. And at the global level, economism is coterminous with the dangers of ''unbridled capitalism'' [31].…”

“…Noting that thinking ''economically'' runs counter to thinking ecologically (paradigmatically speaking) [31], critical realism can support efforts to counter economism in education, to help thwart colonisation of human identity by the homo economicus imaginary [63]. Lewis [64], for example, identifies the significance of critical realism in arguing for sufficiently rich and complex, ''naturalist discourse,'' [64, p. 181] and against undue quantification.…”

“…Such understandings differ from the sensibility of modernism: specifically, that there can be identified an intimate dialogue between spirituality and philosophy. 11 In accordance with ''postformal poetic ecosophy'' [31] the text involves a rich mixture of metaphors partly as a reflection of the urgency and complexity of the ecological situation.…”