Description: An exhaustive introduction to Gilbert Simondon's oeuvre.
Brief description: Anaïs Nony is Senior Researcher at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study where she leads the 'AI & Life Matters' research stream and Associate Researcher at the Institut de Recherche et d'Innovation in Paris. She studied theatre at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle and philosophy at the University of Minnesota, where she wrote her doctoral thesis under the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler. Her book Performative Images: A Philosophy of Video Art Technology in France (Amsterdam University Press, 2023) shows how digital media technologies are dramatically shaping our aesthetic, political and epistemological landscapes. Her essays have appeared in the journals Philosophy Today, Cultural Critique, Parallax, The Moving Image, La Deleuziana, Intermediality: History and Theory of the Arts and Trópos: Journal of Hermeneutics and Philosophical Criticism, as well as in numerous edited collections. Since 2014, she is an editorial board member of the journal La Deleuziana.
Review Quotes: Gilbert Simondon may be the most important philosopher to help our age turn towards more sustainable directions. His philosophy of technics and individuation provides the deepest antidote to the current fracking of our planet, societies and mind. This volume is the best possible introduction and guide through his complex and fascinating mode of thinking. It includes a translation of a brief original text that expresses the core of his approach in a nutshell. It digs deep into very diverse aspects of his inquiries, while synthetically surveying their broadest scope. It articulates a very original ecotechnological perspective that paves the way towards a reconciliation between technical developments, care for the environment, and enhancement of our common goods.--Yves Citton, Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis