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

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 e...

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Place / Publishing House:Luneburg : : Meson Press,, [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (74 pages) :; illustrations
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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.