Jean-Hugues Barthélémy.
Life and Technology: an enquiry into and beyond Simondon.
Meson Press. 2015
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.