Gilbert Simondon : being and technology

✍ Scribed by Arne de Boever & Alex Murray & Jon Roffe & Ashley Woodward

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 249
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The first sustained exploration of Simondon's work to be published in English. This collection of essays, including one by Simondon himself, outlines the central tenets of Simondon's thought, the implication of his thought for numerous disciplines and his relationship to other thinkers such as Heidegger, Deleuze and Canguilhem.Complete with a contextualising introduction and a glossary of technical terms, it offers an entry point to this important thinker and will appeal to people working in philosophy, philosophy of science, media studies, social theory and political philosophy.Gilbert Simondon's work has recently come to prominence in America and around the Anglophone world, having been of great importance in France for many years

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Technical Mentality --
'Technical Mentality' Revisited: Brian Massumi on Gilbert Simondon --
Identity and Individuation: Some Feminist Reflections --
Crystals and Membranes: Individuation and Temporality --
The Question of Anxiety in Gilbert Simondon --
Infra-Psychic Individuation: Transductive Connections and the Genesis of Living Techniques --
'Du mort qui saisit le vif': Simondonian Ontology Today --
The Aesthetics of Gilbert Simondon: Anticipation of the Contemporary Aesthetic Experience --
Gilles Deleuze, a Reader of Gilbert Simondon --
Science and Ontology: From Merleau-Ponty's 'Reduction' to Simondon's 'Transduction' --
The Question of the Individual in Georges Canguilhem and Gilbert Simondon --
The Theatre of Individuation: Phase-shift and Resolution in Simondon and Heidegger.

✦ Subjects

Simondon, Gilbert. Individuation (Philosophy) Philosophy, French -- 20th century. Philosophy, French. Ontologie. Technik. Technologie. Politische Philosophie. Sozialphilosophie. Simondon, Gilbert, -- 1924-1989. Philosophy, French / 20th century.