Life and Technology: An Inquiry Into and Beyond Simondon
<p>The philosophy of Gilbert Simondon has reinvigorated contemporary thinking about biological and technological beings. In this book, Jean-Hugues Barthélémy takes up Simondon’s thought and shows how life and technology are connected by a transversal theme: individuation. In the first essay, Barthélémy 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.</p>
Authors: Jean-Hugues Barthélémy
Subject: Gilbert Simondon
Translators: Barnaby Norman
Series Editor: Erich Hörl, Yuk Hui
Designer: Torsten Köchlin, Silke Krieg
Part of: meson press
ISBN: 9783957960719