La question de l’esthétique urbaine dans l’écosophie guattarienne

This paper explores Félix Guattari’s concept of ecosophy and its application to urban aesthetics. Guattari defines ecosophy as an ethico-political articulation across three interconnected registers: environmental, social, and mental subjectivity. Moving beyond managerial ecology and deep ecology’s romanticized return to nature, Guattari’s framework redefines ecology through the lens of machines—biological, social, technological, and urban. The text highlights how contemporary urbanization operates as a planetary megamachine that stratifies flows, alters human subjectivity, and generates new spatial enclosures. To counter capitalistic homogenization and social segregation, the article examines Guattari’s "new aesthetic paradigm". By grounding aesthetics in aisthesis (sensibility and perception) and transversality, ecosophical urbanism fosters singularized, collective subjectivities and transforms architectural and urban practices into sites of ethico-political experimentation