Seminar - Spotlight
Universal Ecology as a Post-Materialist Systems Model
This work proposes a relational model called “un-i-vers-elle ecology,” which extends the ecological vision to the entire phenomenality of relative realities—that is, to everything that takes shape and meaning in relation to the world: known or as yet unknown realms, and biological, psychological, symbolic, cosmic, or technological forms.
Inspired by complex thought (Morin), constructivism (Lemoigne), enactive approaches (Varela), behavioral biology (Laborit), non-dual thought (Prajnanpad), and the anthropology of the imagination (Durand), this systemic model posits that our human realities emerge from dynamics of relationship, interpretation, and symbolization permeated by an irreducible openness.
Its architecture articulates three dimensions:
- the ecology of dreams (forms in which the world appears),
- the ecology of the real (the principle of non-closure preventing systems from considering themselves absolute totalities).
- the ecology of meaning (the circulation of meanings),
The model thus seeks to explore how individuals and societies produce meaning, often becoming rigidified into hyperrealities, or, conversely, maintaining open dynamics of regulation and relationship. Here, eco-consciousness refers to a capacity for orientation: maintaining the vitality of the living relationship between forms without allowing them to close in on themselves.
The challenge is to outline a relational grammar of life that allows us to better conceive of ways to transcend contemporary dynamics of fragmentation, rigidity, and loss of meaning.
