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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.

Jean-Hugues Barthélémy argues for a reading of humanism and Enlightenment that strips them of their scientistic and Eurocentric implications and makes the values of both available for contemporary appropriation. Drawing on the work of Gilbert Simondon and mobilizing his conception of the relationship between human beings and technology against the conception implicit in Marx, he seeks to establish a ground for an encyclopedist humanism – a genetic encyclopedism – that lies beyond both the humanism combated by Heidegger and that philosopher's own anti-anthropological positions.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Editors' Introduction: Simondon, Finally -- Chapter 1 Technical Mentality -- Explications -- Chapter 2 'Technical Mentality' Revisited: Brian Massumi on Gilbert Simondon -- Chapter 3 Identity and Individuation: Some Feminist Reflections -- Chapter 4 Crystals and Membranes: Individuation and Temporality -- Implications -- Chapter 5 The Question of Anxiety in Gilbert Simondon -- Chapter 6 Infra-Psychic Individualization: Transductive Connections and the Genesis of Living Techniques -- Chapter 7 'Du mort qui saisit le vif ': Simondonian Ontology Today -- Chapter 8 The Aesthetics of Gilbert Simondon: Anticipation of the Contemporary Aesthetic Experience -- Resonances -- Chapter 9 Gilles Deleuze, a Reader of Gilbert Simondon -- Chapter 10 Science and Ontology: From Merleau- Ponty's 'Reduction' to Simondon's 'Transduction' -- Chapter 11 The Question of the Individual in Georges Canguilhem and Gilbert Simondon -- Chapter 12 The Theatre of Individuation: Phase- Shift and Resolution in Simondon and Heidegger -- Glossary: Fifty Key Terms in the Works of Gilbert Simondon -- Notes on Contributors -- Index