Gilbert Simondon: Being and technology

The first sustained exploration of Simondon's work in English Gilbert Simondon's work has recently come to prominence in America and around the Anglophone work, having been of great importance in France for many years. This first collection of essays, by renowned critics and philosophers, outlines the central tenets of Simondon's thought, the implication of his thought in numerous disciplines and his relationship to other thinkers such as Heidegger, Deleuze and Canguilhem. This book offers an entry point to this influential thinker and will appeal to people working in philosophy, philosophy of science, media studies, social theory and political philosophy. Includes * a contextualising introduction * an important essay by Simondon himself * a glossary of 50 key terms in Simondon's work Keywords Gilbert Simondon; Technology; Individuation; Ontogenesis; Technicity

Abbreviations; Introduction: Simondon, Finally, Arne de Boever, Alex Murray, Jon Roffe and Ashley Woodward; 1. Technical Mentality, Gilbert Simondon, translated by Arne De Boever; Explications; 2. 'Technical Mentality' Revisited: Brian Massumi on Gilbert Simondon, With Arne De Boever, Alex Murray and Jon Roffe; 3. Identity and Individuation: Some Feminist Reflections, Elizabeth Grosz; 4. Crystals and Membranes: Individuation and Temporality, Anne Sauvagnargues, translated by Jon Roffe; Implications; 5. The Question of Anxiety in Gilbert Simondon, Igor Krtolica, translated by Jon Roffe; 6. Infra-Psychic Individuation: Transductive Connections and the Genesis of Living Techniques, Marie-Pier Boucher; 7. 'Du mort qui saisit le vif': Simondonian Ontology Today, Jean-Hugues Barthelemy, translated by Justin Clemens; 8. The Aesthetics of Gilbert Simondon: Anticipation of the Contemporary Aesthetic Experience, Yves Michaud, translated by Justin Clemens; Resonances; 9. Gilles Deleuze, a Reader of Gilbert Simondon, Sean Bowden; 10. Science and Ontology: From Merleau-Ponty's 'Reduction' to Simondon's 'Transduction', Miguel de Beistegui; 11. The Question of the Individual in Georges Canguilhe…