The Earthly Becomings of Thought: How Do We Take Up the Legacy of Geophilosophy?

In What is philosophy? Deleuze and Guattari proposed to engage philosophy in a form they called ‘geophilosophy’. The status of this form has remained opened. The aim of this article is to give an account of the main axes of this geophilosophy, to identify its origin and necessity, and to assess its actuality. Geophilosophy, as I have tried to show here, is essentially a matter of gestures, of ways of posing and constructing problems, of making sense of the events that engage us. It is constituted at the intersection of three gestures that this article attempts to identify and whose logic and coherence it aims to demonstrate: inscribing thought in its terrestrial forms, regionalising our modes of thought, intensifying the contingency of events. The question at the heart of geophilosophy, and which marks its profound topicality, particularly in the context of the ‘new climate regime’, can be formulated as follows: how do we inhabit the earth?