Gilbert Simondon
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Gilbert Simondon | |
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20th-century philosophy | |
Region | Western philosophy |
School | Continental philosophy Philosophy of technology |
Institutions | University of Poitiers University of Tours University of Lyon University of Paris |
Theses |
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philosophy of nature, philosophy of science, epistemology, technology, psychology, physics, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, hydraulics, chemistry, biology, crystallography, mechanics, electronics, architecture, religion, ethics, aesthetics | |
Notable ideas | Individuation Transduction[citation needed] Allagmatics Metastability Abstract and Concrete Technical Objects Open and Closed Systems Minor and Major Technics Techno-Aesthetics |
Gilbert Simondon (French:
Despite Simondon's thought having remained largely alienated amidst the effervescent wave of post-structuralism of his age in his homeland of France and Europe in general, a few colleagues have been pioneers in praising Simondon's writings and demonstrating the influence and weight of his intellectual work in their own, the most notable being Gilles Deleuze, whose The Logic of Sense is heavily influenced by Simondon's theory of individuation, and Herbert Marcuse, who takes inspiration from Simondon's notions of the effects of technological alienation in society in his book One-Dimensional Man. Today, Simondon's work influence can most clearly be seen in the works of Bruno Latour, Bernard Stiegler and Yuk Hui.
Career
Born in
Individuation and technology
In L'individuation psychique et collective, Simondon developed a theory of individual and collective
Influence
Simondon's theory of
Bibliography
- Du mode d'existence des objets techniques (Méot, 1958; second ed. Paris: Aubier, 1989).[2]
- L'individu et sa genèse physico-biologique (l'individuation à la lumière des notions de forme et d'information) (Paris: PUF, 1964; second ed. J.Millon, coll. Krisis, 1995).[3]
- L'individuation psychique et collective[4](Paris, Aubier, 1989; reprinted in 2007 with a preface by Bernard Stiegler).
Posthumous publications
- L’Invention dans les techniques, Cours et conferences (Éd. du Seuil, coll. "Traces écrites").[5]
- L’Individuation à la lumière des notions de forme et d’information (Jérôme Millon, coll. Krisis, 2005).[6]
- Cours sur la perception (1964–1965), Préface de Renaud Barbaras (Editions de La Transparence).[7]
- Imagination et invention (1965–1966) (Editions de La Transparence, 2008).[8]
- Communication et Information. Cours et Conférences (Éditions de La Transparence, 2010).[9]
- Sur la technique (P.U.F., 2014).
- Sur la psychologie (P.U.F., 2015).
- Sur la philosophie (P.U.F., 2016).
- La résolution des problèmes (P.U.F., 2018).
English translations
- "Technical Mentality," trans. Arne De Boever, Parrhesia 07 (2009): 7–27 [1] Archived 20 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine.
- "Techno Aesthetics," trans. Arne De Boever, Parrhesia 14 (2012): 1–8 [2].
- "Technical Individualization," in Joke Brouwer & Arjen Mulder (eds.), Interact or Die! (Rotterdam: NAi, 2007).
- "The Essence of Technicity," trans. Ninian Mellamphy, Dan Mellamphy & Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, Deleuze Studies 5 (11.11.2011): 406–424,[2].
- "The Genesis of the Individual," in Jonathan Crary & Sanford Kwinter (eds.), Incorporations (New York: Zone Books, 1992): 297–319.
- "The Position of the Problem of Ontogenesis," trans. Gregory Flanders, Parrhesia 07 (2009): 4–16. [3] Archived 20 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine.
- "The Limits of Human Progress," trans Sean Cubitt, Cultural Politics, 8(2) (2010): 229–36.Cultural Politics, 8(2) (2010): 229–36
- Two Lessons on Animal and Man (Minneapolis: Univocal Publishing, 2012) [4].
- On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (Minneapolis: Univocal Publishing, 2016) [5].
- Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020)[6]
- Also see the Online translationssection (below) for unpublished translations.
References
- ^ Mark Hayward and Ghislain Thibault, 'Machinic Milieus: Simondon, John Hart and Mechanology', From Disability History Newsletter, Fall 2013
- OCLC 410239717.
- OCLC 3289263.
- ^ Simondon, Gilbert. "L'Individuation psychique et collective de Gilbert Simondon – Editions Flammarion". editions.flammarion.com (in French). Retrieved 18 February 2021.
- OCLC 420272615.
- ISBN 978-2-84137-181-5.
- OCLC 799915424.
- OCLC 354111769.
- OCLC 690437894.
Further reading
- Alloa, Emmanuel, "Prégnances du devenir. Simondon et les images", in Critique 816 (2015): 356 – 371 (in French).
- Alloa, Emmanuel & Judith Michalet, "Differences in Becoming. Gilbert Simondon and Gilles Deleuze on Individuation" in Philosophy Today vol. 61 no. 3 (2017): 475–502..
- Bardin, Andrea, "Philosophy as Political Technē: The Tradition of Invention in Simondon’s Political Thought" Contemporary Political Theory, 2018.
- Bardin, Andrea, Epistemology and Political Philosophy in Gilbert Simondon. Individuation, Technics, Social Systems (Springer, 2015).
- Barthélémy, Jean-Hugues, Life and Technology: An Inquiry Into and Beyond Simondon (tr. B. Norman, Meson Press, 2015).
- Barthélémy, Jean-Hugues, Simondon (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2014).
- Barthélémy, Jean-Hugues (dir.), Cahiers Simondon N° 1 to 6 (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2009–2015).
- Barthélémy, Jean-Hugues, "Individuation and Knowledge. The refutation of idealism in Simondon's Heritage in France", translated by M. Hayward and A. De Boever, SubStance, Special Issue "Gilbert Simondon", Issue 129, Vol. 41, N°3, 2012.
- Barthélémy, Jean-Hugues, "What new Humanism today ?", translated by Chris Turner, Cultural Politics, Vol. 6, Issue 2, Bergs Publishers, 2010.
- Barthélémy, Jean-Hugues, "Du mort qui saisit le vif. Simondonian ontology today", trans. Justin Clemens, Parrhesia 7 (2009): 28–35 Archived 20 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine.
- Barthélémy, Jean-Hugues, Simondon ou l'encyclopédisme génétique (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2008)
- Barthélémy, Jean-Hugues, Penser l'individuation. Simondon et la philosophie de la nature (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2005). (in French).
- Barthélémy, Jean-Hugues, Penser la connaissance et la technique après Simondon (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2005). (in French).
- Bidet, Alexandra, Macé, Marielle. "S'individuer, s'émanciper, risquer un style (autour de Simondon)", Revue du Mauss, n°38 – Emancipation, subjectivation, individuation. Psychanalyse, philosophie et science sociale, La Découverte, 2011, pp. 269–284.
- Bontems, Vincent (dir.), Gilbert Simondon ou l'invention du futur (Paris: Klincksieck, 2016).
- Caponi, Saverio, Gilbert Simondon. La tecnica e la vita, Lulu.com, 2010.
- Carrozzini, Giovanni, Gilbert Simondon filosofo della mentalité technique, Mimesis, Milano 2011.
- Carrozzini, Giovanni, Gilbert Simondon: per un'assiomatica dei saperi. Dall'"ontologia dell'individuo" alla filosofia della tecnologia, Manni, San Cesario di Lecce 2006
- Chabot, Pascal, La philosophie de Simondon (Paris, Vrin, 2003). (English translation : "The philosophy of Simondon.Between technology and individuation", Bloomsbury, 2013)
- Combes, Muriel, Gilbert Simondon and the Philosophy of the Transindividual, translated by Thomas LaMarre, MIT Press 2013 (originally published in French: Simondon, Individu et collectivité, Presses Universitaires de France 1999)
- Critique no. 816 (2015), Special Issue on Gilbert Simondon, with texts by Elie During, Emmanuel Alloa, Irlande Saurin, Anne Sauvegnargues and Gilbert Simondon [7]
- ISBN 1-58435-018-0
- De Boever, Murray, Roffe & Ashley (eds.), Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology (Edinburgh University Press, hardback: 2012; paperback: March 2013).
- Dumouchel, Paul, "Gilbert Simondon's Plea for a Philosophy of Technology," in The Politics of Knowledge (Bloomington & Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1995): 255–71. ISBN 0-253-20940-4.
- During, Elie, Simondon au pied du mur. (in French).
- Hottois, Gilbert, Simondon et la philosophie de la culture technique (Brussels: De Boeck, 1992). (in French).
- Mackenzie, Adrian, Transductions: Bodies and Machines at Speed (Continuum Press, 2002). ISBN 0-8264-5883-1
- Massumi, Brian, Technical Mentality" Revisited: Brian Massumi on Gilbert Simondon, Parrhesia 7 (2009): 36–45 Archived 20 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine.
- Mills, Simon, Gilbert Simondon – Information, Technology and Media (Rowman and Littlefield, 2016).
- Morizot, Baptiste, Pour une théorie de la rencontre. Hasard et individuation chez Gilbert Simondon (Paris: Vrin, 2016; foreword by Jean-Hugues Barthélémy).
- Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger, Gilbert Simondon, n°3/2006.
- Sabolius, Kristupas, "Traversing Life and Thought: Gilbert Simondon's Theory of Cyclic Imagination", in Social Imaginaries 5.2 (2019): 37–57.
- Scott, David, Gilbert Simondon's Psychic and Collective Individuation (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014).
- Stiegler, Bernard, Acting Out (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009).
- Stiegler, Bernard, The Theater of Individuation: Phase-shift and Resolution in Simondon and Heidegger, trans. Kristina Lebedeva, Parrhesia 7 (2009): 46–57.
- Stiegler, Bernard, Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998).
- Stiegler, Bernard, Temps et individuation technique, psychique, et collective dans l’oeuvre de Simondon. (in French).
- Tenti, Gregorio, Estetica e morfologia in Gilbert Simondon, Mimesis, 2020
- Thibault, Ghislain, Filming Simondon: The National Film Board, Education, and Humanism , Canadian Journal of Film Studies, vol. 26 n°1/2017, pp. 1–23 [8]
- Thibault, Ghislain and Mark Hayward, Understanding Machines: A History of Canadian Mechanology, Canadian Journal of Communication, vol. 42 n°3/2017
- Toscano, Alberto, "Technical Culture and the Limits of Interaction: A Note on Simondon," in Joke Brouwer & Arjen Mulder (eds.), Interact or Die! (Rotterdam: NAi, 2007): 198–205.
- Virno, Paolo, Angels and the General Intellect: Individuation in Duns Scotus and Gilbert Simondon, Parrhesia 7 (2009): 58–67 Archived 20 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine.
- Olivier Del Fabbro: Philosophieren mit Objekten – Gilbert Simondons prozessuale Individuationsontologie, Frankfurt am Main: Campus Verlag. 2021.
Films François Lagarde and Pascal Chabot have made a movie on Simondon: Simondon of the Desert (english translation) with Anne Fagot-Largeault, Arne De Boever, Dominique Lecourt, Gilbert Hottois, Giovanni Carrozzini, Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, Jean Clottes, and music by Jean-Luc Guillonet.
External links
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Online translations
- Save the Technical Object, link to PDF file of unpublished 2013 translation.
- MEOT / METO, link to PDF file of unpublished 2010 translation.
- Also see the English translationssection (above) for published translations.
Other links
- The Gilbert Simondon issue of Parrhesia
- Filmed interview of Gilbert Simondon on the subject of mechanology, 1968 (in French).
- On Gilbert Simondon's Unified Theory of Technics and Technology, by François Laruelle
- Autour de Simondon: List of articles about Simondon, by the revue online Appareil (in French).
- Aud-Sissel-Hoel and Van-der-Tuin on Simondon's link to Ernst Cassirer
- Gilbert Simondon Biography by Nathalie Simondon
- "Simondon au pied du mur" by Elie During (in French).
- Mode of Existence, English translation.
- On the Essence of Technicity.
- Simondon biography
- List of articles about Simondon (in French).
- Online Issue on Simondon, by Jean-Hugues Barthélémy (dir.)).
- "Simondon Week" on TheFunambulist.net.
- "Penser l'école avec Gilbert Simondon" Archived 10 April 2021 at the Wayback Machine (in French).
- CIDES (Centre International des Études Simondoniennes) a.k.a. ICSS (International Center for Simondon Studies)
- Conference-video on Gilbert Simondon and the New Enlightenment (in French).
- Simondon at Monoskop.org, with extensive bibliography.
- A short list of Gilbert Simondon's vocabulary
- A research project (and book in preparation) on the relationship between Gilbert Simondon, mechanology and Canadian intellectuals