#gilbert simondon

[garadinervi]

Giovanni Carrozzini, Simondonian Rhapsody, «Dialectica», Orthotes Editrice, Napoli, 2024

[improvisedliturgy]

Adaptation does not change the means of becoming; it merely repeats and reproduces. Doctrines which insist that the essential activity of living things is adaptation assume that there exists, in the surrounding environment, some goal to be attained. Obstacles separate the subject from what he wants, obliging him to adapt as best he can to the forces that surround him. He either uses his cunning to circumvent these obstacles, or allows himself to be carried along. Simondon’s inventor has a different conception of existence. He is not a man of conflict. He opposes nothing. He integrates. He doesn’t seek to attain a specific goal, he attempts to find order and connection across the different worlds that he inhabits. For the inventor, there is not only ‘a food object or a prey object, but a world of nourishment and a world of avoiding predators, or a world of sexuality’. These worlds overlap and encroach upon one another. They are not radically heterogeneous, but neither can they be neatly superimposed, one atop the other. Their coexistence is not a given, but rather a problem to be overcome. This problem, manifest in the tension that precedes choice, the fluctuatio animi of which Spinoza wrote, implies a choice and an action. For Simondon, the individual invents – and invents technologies in particular – because, fundamentally, he must invent in order to establish coherence in the world.

Pascal Chabot, The Philosophy of Simondon: Between Technology and Individuation

[yorgunherakles]

insan, bir sazlıktan başka bir şey değildir, doğanın en zayıfı odur, fakat o bir düşünen sazlıktır.

gilbert simondon - hayvan ve insan üzerine iki ders

[schizografia]

Non è l’individuo che inventa, ma il soggetto, che è più vasto e più ricco dell’individuo, e che comprende, oltre l’individualità dell’essere individuato, un determinato carico di natura, di essere non individuato.

Gilbert Simondon

[nellydeane]

Diagram of the bifurcation of the relation to milieu and the relation to self, and the subsequent modes of existence and discovery of transindividual, respectively.

[artofthemindblog]

The industrial modality appears when the source of information and the source of energy separate, namely when the Human Being is merely the source of information, and Nature is required to furnish the energy. The machine is different from the tool in that it is a relay: it has two different entry points, that of energy and that of information

Gilbert Simondon, Technical Mentality

[sethnakht]

"The man who wishes to dominate his fellows creates the android machine. He abdicates in favor of it and delegates his humanity to it. He tries to construct the thinking machine and dreams of being able to construct the willing machine, the living machine, so that he can remain behind it without anxiety, freed from all danger, exempt from every feeling of weakness, and enjoying a vicarious triumph through what he has invented.”

—Gilbert Simondon, On The Mode of Existence of Technical Objects

[garadinervi]

Gilbert Simondon, (2014), Sulla tecnica, Edited by Antonio Stefano Caridi, «Dialectica», Orthotes Editrice, Napoli, 2017

Cover Art: Jim Dine, Nutcracker, (lithograph on paper), 1973 [Tate, London. © Jim Dine]