Guattari's Ecosophical Logic

"Unlike Hegelian and Marxist Dialectics, eco-logic no longer imposes a 'resolution' of opposites. In the domain of social ecology there will be times of struggle in which everyone will feel impelled to decide on common objectives and to act 'like little soldiers', by which I mean good activists. But there will simultaneously be periods in which individual and collective subjectivities will pull out without a thought for collective aims, and in which creative expression as such will take precedence. This new ecosophical logic -- and I want to emphasise this point -- resembles the manner in which an artist may be led to alter his work after the intrusion of some accidental detail, an event-incident that suddenly makes his initial project bifurcate. making a drift [deriver] far from its previous path, however certain it had once appeared to. There is a proverb 'the exception proves the rule/, but the exception can just as easily deflect the rule, or even recreate it."

Guattari, F (2000) Three Ecologies. Coninuum: London. p. 34