Guattari’s resingularization of existence

Abstract

This commentary responds to Joe Gerlach and Thomas Jellis’ focus upon Felix Guattari’s own work and its ethos of what they call an ‘impractical philosophy’. Pivoting off the intellectual courage present in Gerlach and Jellis’ affirmation of the potentialization of ideas that places experiment before judgment, and uncertainty before certainty, I draw attention to three aspects housed within their overall argument: (1) the shift from a scientific to an ethico-aesthetic paradigm, that (2) rethinks the status and production of subjectivity, and that ultimately (3) pushes the importance for geography as a discipline to be one that takes care of the world’s mental ecologies as much as it does its physical ones.