Life and technology : : an inquiry into and beyond Simondon / / Jean-Hugues Barthelemy ; Barnaby Norman, translator.

• VerfasserIn: Barthelemy, Jean-Hugues,
• TeilnehmendeR: Norman, Barnaby,
• Place / Publishing House: Luneburg : : Meson Press,, [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (74 pages) :; illustrations

Annotation The philosophy of Gilbert Simondon has reinvigorated contemporary thinking about biological and technological beings. In this book, Jean-Hugues Barthelemy takes up Simondon's thought and shows how life and technology are connected by a transversal theme: individuation. In the first essay, Barthelemy delivers a contemporary interpretation of Simondon's concept of ontogenesis against the backdrop of biology and cybernetics. In the second essay, he extends his reflections to propose a non-anthropological understanding of technology, and so sets up a confrontation with the work of Martin Heidegger."

Table of Contents

After Simondon Series Preface 9 -- Erich Hörl and Yuk Hui -- Author's Preface to the English Translation 13 -- Aspects of a Philosophy of the Living 15 -- The Positioning of the Thinking of the Living -- Being at the Centre of Genetic Encyclopedism 16 -- Individuation and Individualization: Life as Continual Genesis 21 -- The Problem of Adaptation 27 -- Information and Organization 32 -- Apoptosis and Permanent Ontogenesis 37 -- Technology and the Question of Non-Anthropology47 -- Introduction: Non-Anthropology; or, The Conditions of a Dialogue 47 -- The Non-Anthropological Thinking of Technology in Simondon 51 -- The Non-Anthropological Thinking of Technology in Heidegger: Towards an Internal Critique of Gestell56 -- From Possible Dialogue to Inevitable Misunderstanding: The Self-Transcendence of Heidegger's Questioning and Simondon's Unthought64 -- Publication Details and License Information 73.