Gilbert Simondon

Born	October 2, 1924(1924-10-02) Saint-Étienne, France
Died	February 7, 1989(1989-02-07) (aged 64) Palaiseau, France

Simondon with students of Lycée Descartes in Tours, early 1950s.

Photograph from Simondon's On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (1958/1989) showing the evolution of the electronic tube from 1924 to 1952 as a concretisation process. His commentary (top left) reads "The ebonite socket reduces itself and disappears. In contrast, the active parts evolve and occupy the entire volume of the glass ampoule."

Gilbert Simondon (1924-1989) was a French philosopher best known for his work on individuation and technology.

A student of philosopher of science Georges Canguilhem, Martial Guéroult, phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Jean Hyppolyte, Simondon's theory of individuation had a major influence on the work of Gilles Deleuze as well as Bernard Stiegler, Brian Massumi, Adrian Mackenzie and many others.

He studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Ulm and the Sorbonne, defending his doctoral dissertations in 1958. His main thesis, L'individuation à la lumière des notions de Forme et d'Information, was published in two parts, the first in 1964 under the title L'Individu et sa génèse physico-biologique at PUF, while it is only in 1989 that Aubier published the second part, L'Individuation psychique et collective. While his main thesis, which laid the foundations of his thinking, was not widely read until it was reviewed by Gilles Deleuze in 1966, his complementary thesis, Du Mode d'existence des objets techniques was published by Aubier shortly after being completed (1958). It was only in 2005 that Jérôme Millon published a complete edition of the main thesis.

Works

Du Mode d'existence des objets techniques, 1958. Download (FR, EN, ES).

(in French unless noted)

Theses and Collected works

• Du Mode d'existence des objets techniques, Paris: Aubier, 1958; 1969, 266 pp; 1989, 336 pp; 2001; 2012. Complementary Ph.D. thesis [thèse complémentaire].
  • On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects, trans. Ninian Mellamphy, University of Western Ontario, 1980. 2010 update (in progress). (in English)
  • "Technical Individualization", trans. Karen Ocana with Brian Massumi, in Interact or Die!, eds. Joke Brouwer and Arjen Mulder, Rotterdam: V2_/NAi, 2007, pp 206-213. Translation of pages 56-65. (in English)
  • El modo de existencia de los objetos técnicos, trans. Margarita Martinez and Pablo Rodriguez, Buenos Aires: Prometeo, 2007, 278 pp. (in Spanish). Review.
  • "The Genesis of Technicity", trans. Ninian Mellamphy, Dan Mellamphy and Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, Deleuze Studies 5:3 (2011), pp 407-424. Translation of Chapter One of Part Three. (in English)
  • trans. Kim Jae-hui, Seoul: Greenbee, 2011. (in Korean) [1]
  • Die Existenzweise technischer Objekte, trans. Michael Cuntz, Zürich: Diaphanes, 2012. (in German)
  • Do modo de existência dos objetos técnicos, trans. Pedro P. Ferreira and Christian P. Kasper, (in progress). (in Portuguese). A portion of the text was published as "Cultura e Técnica", Nada 11 (2008).
  • trans. Cécile Malaspina, Univocal, (forthcoming). (in English)
• L'Individu et sa genèse physico-biologique, Paris: PUF, 1964; Grenoble: Millon, 1995, 272 pp. First part and the beginning of the second part of L'Individuation à la lumière des notions de forme et d'information. [2]
  • "The Genesis of the Individual", trans. Mark Cohen and Sanford Kwinter, in Incorporations, eds. Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter, New York: Zone Books, 1992, pp 297-319. (in English). The introduction to Simondon's book.
  • The Individual and Its Physico-Biological Genesis, trans. Taylor Adkins, 2007. Unpublished translation. (in English)
• L'Individuation psychique et collective, Paris: Aubier, 1989; 2007. End of the second part of L'Individuation à la lumière des notions de forme et d'information.
  • "The Position of the Problem of Ontogenesis", trans. Gregory Flanders, Parrhesia 7 (2009), pp 4-16. The first part of Simondon's introduction. (in English)
  • L'individuazione psichica e collettiva, trans. Paolo Virno, Rome: Derive Approdi, 2011, 288 pp. (in Italian) [3]
  • trans. Arne De Boever, Gregory Flanders, Alicia Harrison, with Rositza Alexandrova and Julia Ng, University of Minnesota Press, (forthcoming). (in English)
• L'Individuation à la lumière des notions de forme et d'information, Grenoble: Millon, 2005, 576 pp; 2013. First complete publication of his Ph.D. thesis [thèse d'État], with additions (Histoire de la notion d'individu, Note complémentaire sur les conséquences de la notion d'individuation) and supplements ("Forme, information, potentiels"; "Analyse des critères de l'individualité", "Allagmatique"). [4]
  • "Histoire de la notion d'individu", Chiasmi International 7 (2005), pp 45-54. Extract from c200-page addition to the thesis. [5]
    • "Abstract: A History of the Notion of the Individual", trans. David Gougelet, Chiasmi International 7 (2005), pp 55-64. (in English) [6]
    • "Riassunto: Storia della nozione d'individuo", Chiasmi International 7 (2005), pp 65-74. (in Italian) [7]
  • La individuacion a la luz de las nociones de forma y de informacion, trans. Pablo Ires, Buenos Aires: Cactus et La Cebra, 2009. (in Spanish)
  • "A individuação à luz das noções de forma e de informação: Introdução", trans. Pedro P. Ferreira and Francisco A. Caminati, 2011. (in Portuguese)
  • L'individuazione alla luce delle nozioni di forma e d'informazione, 2 Vols, trans. Giovanni Carrozzini, Milan/Udine: Mimesis, 2011, 789+220 pp. Vol 2. (in Italian)
  • A individuação à luz das noções de forma e de informação, trans. Pedro Peixoto Ferreira and Chico Caminati, (in progress). (in Portuguese)
• Deux leçons sur l'animal et l'homme, Paris: Ellipses, 2004. Transcript of a course held at Propédeutique Poitiers probably between 1955-62.
  • Tier und Mensch, zwei Vorlesungen, trans. Michael Cuntz, Zürich: Diaphanes, 2011. (in German)
  • Two Lessons on Animal and Man, trans. Drew S. Burk, Minneapolis: Univocal, 2012, 92 pp. (in English) [8], Review, Review.
• L'Invention dans les techniques, Cours et conférences, Paris: Seuil, 2005, 349 pp. Contains "L'Invention et le développement des techniques", 1968; "L'Invention dans les techniques", 1971; and the extracts from "Imagination et invention", 1965-66; "La Résolution des problèmes", 1974; and "Invention et créativité", 1976.
• Cours sur la Perception (1964-1965), Chatou: La Transparence, 2006; Paris: PUF, 2013. Course notes.
  • Curso sobre la Percepcion, (1964-1965), trans. Pablo Ires, Buenos Aires: Cactus, 2012. (in Spanish)
• Imagination et invention (1965-1966), Chatou: La Transparence, 2008; Paris: PUF, 2014. Course notes.
  • Imaginacion e invencion, trans. Pablo Ires, Buenos Aires: Cactus, 2013. (in Spanish)
• Communication et information: cours et conférences, Chatou: La Transparence, 2010, 398 pp. Course notes and conference presentations. Contains Cours sur la communication, 1970-71; L'Amplification dans les processus d'information, 1962; Le Relais amplificateur, 1976; Perception et modulation, 1968; Cours sur l'Instinct, 1964; Attitudes et motivations, 1960.
• Sur la Technique, 1953-1983, PUF, 2014, 480 pp. Collection of courses, lectures, articles and interviews, 1953-1983. Courses: Psychosociologie de la technicité, 1960-1961; Naissance de la technologie, 1970; Art et nature (Maîtrise technique de la nature), 1980; Papers and articles: "Place d’une initiation technique dans une formation humaine complète", 1953; "Prolégomènes à une refonte de l’enseignement", 1954; "Aspect psychologique du machinisme agricole", 1959; "Les limites du progrès humain", 1959; "L’effet de halo en matière technique: vers une stratégie de la publicité", 1960; "La mentalité technique", 1961; "Culture et technique", 1965; "Technique et eschatologie: le devenir des objets techniques", 1972; "Trois perspectives sur l’éthique et la technique", 1983; Fragments and notes: "Psychosociologie du cinéma", 1960; "Objet technique et conscience moderne", 1961; "Anthropo-technologie", 1961; "Objet économique et objet technique", 1962; "Réflexions sur la techno-esthétique", 1982; Interviews: "Entretien sur la technologie" (with Yves Deforge), 1965; "Entretien sur la mécanologie" (with Jean Le Moyne), 1968; "Sauver l’objet technique" (with Anita Kéchickian), 1983. [9]

"La perception", 1964-65. Download.

Book chapters, Papers and Articles

• "Place d’une initiation technique dans une formation humaine complète" (Part 1), Cahiers pédagogiques (Nov 1953); repr. in Sur la Technique, 1953-1983, PUF, 2014.
• "Place d’une initiation technique dans une formation humaine complète" (Part 2), Cahiers pédagogiques (1954); repr. in Sur la Technique, 1953-1983, PUF, 2014.
• "Humanisme culturel, humanisme négatif, humanisme nouveau", Bulletin des Amis de Rabelais et de la Devinière 5:1 (1992). Presented at Conférence sur l'humanisme, 1953.
• "Notes sur l'objet technique", Cahiers pédagogiques, 1954.
• "Réflexions préalables à une refonte de l’enseignement", Cahiers pédagogiques (Oct 1954); repr. in Papiers du Collège international de Philosophie 12 (1992); repr. in Sur la Technique, 1953-1983, PUF, 2014.
• with François Le Terrier, "La Psychologie moderne", in Histoire de la science, Des origines au XX° siècle, ed. M. Daumas, Paris: Gallimard, 1957.
• "Les limites du progrès humain", Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 3 (1959), pp 370-376; repr. in Cahiers philosophiques 42 (March 1990), pp 7-14; repr. in Gilbert Simondon, Une pensée de l'individuation et de la technique, Paris: Albin Michel, 1994; repr. in Sur la Technique, 1953-1983, PUF, 2014. Response to that of Ruyer which appeared in Revue 4 (Oct-Dec 1958), pp 412-423.
  • "The Limits of Human Progress: A Critical Study", trans. Sean Cubitt, Cultural Politics 6:2 (2010), pp 229-236. (in English)
• "Forme, Information, Potentiel", Bulletin de la Société Française de Philosophie (Feb 1960). Repr. as the second part of the introduction to L'individuation psychique et collective, 1989; 2007; and as "supplement" of L'individuation à la lumière des notions de forme et d'information, 2005; 2013 (see above).
• "Aspect psychologique du machinisme agricole", Le Concours médical 32-33 (August 1960). Presented at Colloque de psychosociologie agricole de Tours, 14 June 1959; repr. in Sur la Technique, 1953-1983, PUF, 2014.
• "Psychosociologie de la technicité", Bulletin de l'Ecole pratique de Psychologie et de Pédagogie de Lyon (Nov 1960-May 1961); repr. in Sur la Technique, 1953-1983, PUF, 2014.
• "L’effet de halo en matière technique: vers une stratégie de la publicité", Cahiers de l’Institut des sciences économiques appliquées M:7 (March 1960); repr. in Cahiers philosophiques 43 (June 1990); repr. in Sur la Technique, 1953-1983, PUF, 2014.
• "Mentalité technique", Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger 131:3 (2006), pp 343-357; repr. in Sur la Technique, 1953-1983, PUF, 2014. Written in 1961.
  • "Technical Mentality", trans. Arne De Boever, Parrhesia 7 (2009), pp 17-27; repr. in Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology, Edinburgh University Press, 2012, pp 1-15. (in English)
• "L’Amplification dans les processus d’information", in Communication et information, Cours et conférences, La Transparence, 2010. Presented at Colloque de Royaumont sur l’information, 1962.
• "La perception", Bulletin de Psychologie, Vol. 18, Paris, 1964-65, pp 568-604; repr. in Cours sur la Perception, 1964-1965, La Transparence, 2006; PUF, 2013.
• "L'instinct", Bulletin de Psychologie, Vol. 18, Paris, 1964-65; repr. in Communication et information, Cours et conférences, La Transparence, 2010.
• "Culture et technique", Bulletin de l'Institut de Philosophie morale et éthique, Brussels, 1965; repr. in Sur la Technique, 1953-1983, PUF, 2014.
• "Imagination et invention", Bulletin de Psychologie, Vol. 19, Paris, 1965-66; repr. in Imagination et invention, La Transparence, 2008; extracts in L'invention dans les techniques, Cours et conférences, Seuil, 2005.
• "La sensibilité", Bulletin de Psychologie, Vol. 20, Paris, 1966-67.
• "Initiation à la psychologie moderne", Bulletin de Psychologie, Vol. 20, Paris, 1966-67.
• "L'Origine de la vie sur terre", Revue philosophique, 1968. Review of the book by Oparine.
• "La perception de longue durée", Journal de Psychologie normale et pathologique (Oct 1969-Oct 1970).
• "L'invention dans les techniques", Cahiers du Centre culturel canadien, 1971; repr. in L'invention dans les techniques, Cours et conférences, Seuil, 2005.
• "Technique et eschatologie: le devenir des objets techniques", Sur la Technique, 1953-1983, PUF, 2014. Presented at a colloquium organised by Department of Religion of the University of Syracuse and Université des sciences humaines de Strasbourg, 1972; repr. in Sur la Technique, 1953-1983, PUF, 2014.
• "Trois perspectives pour une réflexion sur l'éthique et la technique", Annales de l'Institut de Philosophie et de Sciences morales, Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles, 1983; repr. in Sur la Technique, 1953-1983, PUF, 2014.

Interviews and Debates

• with Zadou-Naïsky, Cahiers pédagogiques (March 1954); repr. in Sur la Technique, 1953-1983, PUF, 2014.
• with Yves Deforge, "Entretien sur la technologie" (video), CNDP, 1965; transcript printed in Sur la Technique, 1953-1983, PUF, 2014. Filmed as part of a series of ten interviews with technology teachers conducted by the National Institute of Education. Other interviewees include André Leroi-Gourhan, Jan Sebestik, Louis Leprince-Ringuet and Louis Bastian. Interviews were grouped by questions: Parts with Simondon, 10 min.
• with Jean Le Moyne, "Entretien sur la mécanologie" (video), August 1968, 74 min; transcript printed in Revue de Synthèse 130:1 (March 2009), pp 103-132 [10]; repr. in Sur la Technique, 1953-1983, PUF, 2014, pp 404-445. Interview for Canadian television. Part 1, 22 min; Part 2, 24 min; Part 3, 28 min. English summary. [11]
• with Jones, "Le Relais amplificateur", Cahiers du Centre culturel canadien (March 1976); repr. in Communication et information, Cours et conférences, La Transparence, 2010.
• with Anita Kéchickian, "Sauver l’objet technique", Esprit 76 (April 1983), pp 147-152; repr. in Sur la Technique, 1953-1983, PUF, 2014.
  • "Save the Technical Object", trans. Andrew Iliadis, 2013. (in English)

"Sur la techno-esthétique". From a letter to Jacques Derrida, 1982. Download.

Correspondence

• "Sur la techno-esthétique, et, Réflexions préalables à une refonte de l'enseignement", Papiers du Collège International de Philosophie 12 (1992), Paris, 28 pp. Letter by Simondon to Jacques Derrida about the foundation of the Collège International de Philosophie (CIPH), dated 3 July 1982. [12] [13]
  • "Sobre a técno-estética: Carta a Jacques Derrida", trans. Stella Senra, in Tecnociência e cultura: ensaios sobre o tempo presente, ed. Hermetes Reis de Araújo, São Paulo: Estação Liberdade, 1998, pp 253-266. (in Portuguese)
  • "On Techno-Aesthetics", trans. Arne De Boever, Parrhesia 14 (2012), pp 1-8. (in English).
  • "Sur la techno-esthétique", repr. in Sur la Technique, 1953-1983, PUF, 2014.

Literature

Monographs

• Gilbert Hottois, Simondon et la philosophie de la "culture technique", Brussels: De Boeck Université, 1993, 140 pp. Review.
• Gilbert Simondon, Une pensée de l'individuation et de la technique, Paris: Albin Michel, 1994, 288 pp. Conference proceedings.
  • François Laruelle, "The Concept of ‘First Technology’: A ‘Unified Theory’ of Technics and Technology", trans. Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, undated. (in English)
• Muriel Combes, Simondon, Individu et collectivité: Pour une philosophie du transindividuel, Paris: PUF, 1999.
  • Gilbert Simondon and the Philosophy of the Transindividual, trans. Thomas LaMarre, MIT Press, 2012, 119 pp. (in English)
• Adrian Mackenzie, Transductions: Bodies and Machines at Speed, Continuum, 2002, 231 pp. (in English)
• Jacques Roux (ed.), Simondon, une pensée opérative, Publications de l’Université de Saint-Étienne, 2002.
• Pascal Chabot, La philosophie de Simondon, Vrin, 2003, 160 pp.
  • The Philosophy of Simondon: Between Technology and Individuation, trans. Aliza Krefetz with Graeme Kirkpatrick, Bloomsbury Academic, 2013, 156 pp. (in English).
• Nicolas Salzmann, Pensée systémique de Gilbert Simondon. Individuations technique, psychique et collective, Nik's News, 2003, 66 pp.
• Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, Penser l'individuation. Simondon et la philosophie de la nature, Paris: L'Harmattan, 2005, 256 pp.
  • "Translation of the first half of Chapter 1", trans. Taylor Adkins, 2007. (in English)
• Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, Penser la connaissance et la technique après Simondon, Paris: L'Harmattan, 2005, 304 pp.
• Jean-Marie Vaysse (ed.), Technique, monde, individuation: Heidegger, Simondon, Deleuze, Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2006.
• Giovanni Carrozzini, Gilbert Simondon: per un’assiomatica dei saperi, Manni, 2006, 272 pp. (in Italian) [14]
• Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, Simondon ou l'encyclopédisme génétique, Paris: PUF, 2008. Introduction.
• Jean-Yves Château, Le Vocabulaire de Simondon, Paris: Ellipses, 2008.
• Andrea Bardin, Epistemologia e politica in Gilbert Simondon. Individuazione, tecnica e sistemi sociali, FuoriRegistro, 2010. (in Italian)
  • Epistemology and Political Philosophy in Gilbert Simondon: Individuation, Technics, Social System, Springer, 2014. (in English)
• Alain Jugnon, Nietzsche et Simondon. Le théâtre du vivant, Dittmar, 2010.
• Giovanni Carrozzini, Gilbert Simondon filosofo della "mentalité technique", Milan: Mimesis/Centro Internazionale Insubrico, 2011, 314 pp. (in Italian) [15]
• Arne De Boever, Alex Murray, Jon Roffe, Ashley Woodward (eds.), Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology, Edinburgh University Press, 2012, 236 pp. (in English)
• Bernard Aspe, Simondon, politique du transindividuel, Paris: Dittmar, 2013.
• Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, Simondon, Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2014.
• Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, Vincent Bontems (eds.), Gilbert Simondon et l'invention du futur, Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2014.

Journal issues

• Cahiers philosophiques 43, Special Issue: "Gilbert Simondon" (June 1990).
• Annales de l’Institut de philosophie de l’Université de Bruxelles: "Simondon" (2002), ed. Pascal Chabot, Paris: Vrin.
• Multitudes 18: "Politiques de l'individuation. Penser avec Simondon" (Autumn 2004).
• Chiasmi International 7: "Merleau-Ponty: Life and Individuation, with unpublished texts by Merleau-Ponty and Simondon" (2005). (in Italian/French/English) [16] [17]
• Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger 131(3): "Gilbert Simondon" (July 2006), ed. Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, Paris: PUF.
• Appareil 2: "Autour de Simondon" (2008).
• Il Protagora 36(12): "Gilbert Simondon filosofo delle tecniche" (July-December 2008). (in Italian)
• Parrhesia 7: Special issue on the work of Gilbert Simondon (2009). (in English)
• Cahiers Simondon 1, ed. Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, Paris: L'Harmattan, 2009, 152 pp.
• Cahiers Simondon 2, ed. Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, Paris: L'Harmattan, 2010, 154 pp.
• Cahiers Simondon 3, ed. Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, Paris: L'Harmattan, 2011, 158 pp. [18]
• Cahiers Simondon 4, ed. Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, Paris: L'Harmattan, 2012, 146 pp.
• SubStance 41(129), Special Issue: "Gilbert Simondon" (2012), University of Wisconsin Press. (in English). Introduction, [19].
• Inflexions 5: "Gilbert Simondon: Milieu, Techniques, Aesthetics" (March 2012), eds. Marie-Pierre Boucher, Patrick Harrop and Troy Rhoades. (in English)
• Informática na educação 15(1): "Simondon, o meio de um pensamento processual" (Jan/Jun 2012), Porto Alegre. (in Portuguese)
• Pli, Special Volume: "Deleuze and Simondon" (2012), University of Warwick. (in English) [20]
• Cahiers Simondon 5, ed. Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, Paris: L'Harmattan, 2013, 145 pp.

Book chapters, Papers, Articles and Blog posts

• Gilles Deleuze, "Gilbert Simondon, L’individu et sa genèse physico-biologique", Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger, 156:1-3, (Jan-Mar 1966). Review.
  • "Review of Gilbert Simondon's L'individu et sa genèse physico-biologique (1966)", trans. Ivan Ramirez, Pli 12 (2001), pp 43-49. (in English)
  • "On Gilbert Simondon", trans. Mike Taormina, in Deleuze, Desert Islands and Other Texts, 1953-1974, Semiotext(e), 2004, pp 86-90, n300. (in English)
• Erik Laloy, "Pour arraisonner le devenir: de nouveaux concepts forgés par Gilbert Simondon", L'enseignement philosophique, 1971; repr. in Travaux et Jours, 2002.
• Denise Van Caneghem, "Hommage à Gilbert Simondon", Bulletin de Psychologie 42:392 (Sep 1989), pp 815-836.
• Gilles Châtelet, "Gilbert Simondon (1924-1989)", in Encyclopedia Universalis, "Vies et portraits – Les vies" series, 1990, p 629; repr. in L'Enchantement du virtuel: mathematique, physique, philosophie, Paris: Rue d'Ulm/Presses de L’École Normale Supérieure, 2010, pp 210-214.
  • "Gilbert Simondon (1924-1989)", trans. Dan Mellamphy, c2013. (in English)
• Paul Dumouchel, "Gilbert Simondon's Plea for a Philosophy of Technology", Inquiry 35:3-4 (1992), pp 407-421; repr. in The Politics of Knowledge, Indiana University Press, 1995, pp 255-271. (in English) [21]
• Bernard Stiegler, "Temps et individuation technique, psychique et collective dans l’œuvre de Simondon", Intellectica 26-27 (1998), pp 241-256.
• Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, Vincent Bontems, "Relativité et réalité. Nottale, Simondon, et le réalisme des relations", Revue de Synthèse 1 (Jan-Mar 2001), Paris: Albin Michel.
• Xavier Guchet, "Théorie du lien social, technologie et philosophie: Simondon lecteur de Merleau-Ponty", Les études philosophiques 2 (2001), Paris.
• Gilbert Hottois, "Leçon 3", in Philosophies des sciences, philosophies des techniques, Paris: Odile Jacob, 2004.
• Henning Schmidgen, "Thinking Technological and Biological Being: Gilbert Simondon's Philosophy of Machines", Revista do Departemento de Psicologia - UFF 17:2 (Jul-Dec 2005), pp 11-18.
• Xavier Guchet, Chapters III and V, Les sens de l'évolution technique, Paris: Léo Scheer, 2005.
• Xavier Guchet, "Simondon, la cybernétique et les sciences humaines. Genèse de l'ontologie simondonienne dans deux manuscrits sur la cybernétique", Chiasmi international 7 (2005).
• Jean-Marie Vaysse, "Heidegger et Simondon: technique et individuation", in Technique, monde, individuation: Heidegger, Simondon, Deleuze, ed. Jean-Marie Vaysse, Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2006, pp 5-16.
• Franck Tinland, "La technique et ses temps", in Technique, monde, individuation: Heidegger, Simondon, Deleuze, ed. Jean-Marie Vaysse, Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2006, pp 17-56.
• Bernard Stiegler, "Le théâtre de l'individuation. Déphasage et résolution chez Simondon et Heidegger", in Technique, monde, individuation: Heidegger, Simondon, Deleuze, ed. Jean-Marie Vaysse, Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2006, pp 57-73.
  • "The Theater of Individuation: Phase-shift and Resolution in Simondon and Heidegger", trans. Kristina Lebedeva, Parrhesia 7 (2009), pp 46-57; repr. in Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology, Edinburgh University Press, 2012, pp 185-202. (in English)
• Muriel Combes, "Tentative d'ouverture d'une bofte noire. Ce que ren erme la 'question de la technique'", in Technique, monde, individuation: Heidegger, Simondon, Deleuze, ed. Jean-Marie Vaysse, Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2006, pp 75-98.
• Elisabeth Rigal, "De la technique et de son essence", in Technique, monde, individuation: Heidegger, Simondon, Deleuze, ed. Jean-Marie Vaysse, Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2006, pp 99-116.
• Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, "Finitude et individuation: l'en jeu non anthropologique", in Technique, monde, individuation: Heidegger, Simondon, Deleuze, ed. Jean-Marie Vaysse, Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 2006, pp 117-132.
• Steven Shaviro, "Simondon on Individuation", The Pinocchio Theory blog, 2006. (in English)
• Giovanni Carrozzini, "Il paradigmatismo tecnologico di Gilbert Simondon", Arkete. Rivista di studi filosofici 2:2 (2006). (in Italian)
• Françoise Balibar, "Le programme de Simondon", Agenda de la pensée contemporaine 4, ed. François Jullien, Paris: PUF, 2006. [22]
• Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, "Simondon", in Dictionnaire d’histoire et philosophie des sciences, 4th ed., ed. D. Lecourt, Paris: PUF, 2006, pp 1006-1008.
• Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, "Simondon", in Dictionnaire des sciences humaines, eds. Patrick Savidan and Sylvie Mesure, Paris: PUF, 2006, pp 1083-1084.
• Adrian Mackenzie, "The Strange Meshing of Impersonal and Personal Forces in Technological Action", Culture, Theory and Critique 47:2 (2006), pp 197-212. (in English)
• Alberto Toscano, "Technical Culture and the Limits of Interaction: A Note on Simondon," in Interact or Die!, eds. Joke Brouwer and Arjen Mulder, Rotterdam: V2_/NAi, 2007, pp 198-205. (in English)
• Erich Hörl, "Die offene Maschine. Heidegger, Günther und Simondon über die technologische Bedingung", MLN 123 (2008), pp 632-655. (in German)
• Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, Ludovic Duhem, "L’invention dans la philosophie de Gilbert Simondon", in Euréka. Le moment de l’invention, eds. Ivan Toulouse and Daniel Danetis, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2008.
• Andrea Bardin, "Gilbert Simondon: trascendentale e filosofia dell’individuazione", in Metamorfosi del trascendentale. Percorsi filosofici tra Kant e Deleuze, ed. G. Rametta, Padova: CLEUP, 2008, pp 301-339. (in Italian)
• Marc J. de Vries, "Gilbert Simondon and the Dual Nature of Technical Artifacts", Techné 12:1 (2008), pp 23-35. (in English)
• Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, Vincent Bontems, "Philosophie de la nature et artefact. La question du préindividuel", in Le milieu des appareils, ed. Jean-Louis Déotte, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2008.
• Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, "D’une rencontre fertile de Bergson et Bachelard: l’ontologie génétique de Simondon", in Bergson et Bachelard. Continuité et discontinuité, eds. Frédéric Worms and Jean-Jacques Wunenburger, Paris: PUF, 2008.
• Andrea Bardin, "Gilbert Simondon. Studio della nozione di animalità: note per un’antropologia politica", Kath’autón 2 (2008), pp 40-45. (in Italian)
• T. Novaes de Andrade, "Technology and Environment: Gilbert Simondon's Contributions", Environmental Sciences 5:1 (2008), pp 7-15. (in English) [23]
• Vincent Bontems, "Gilbert Simondon’s Genetic ‘Mecanology’ and the Understanding of Laws of Technical Evolution", Techné 13:1 (2009), pp 1-12. (in English)
• Vincent Bontems, Ronan Le Roux, "Objectivité et normativité de l’évolution technique chez Gilbert Simondon", in Les Systèmes techniques: lois d’évolution et méthodologies de conception, eds. Smaïl Aït-El-Hadj and Vincent Boly, Lyon: Hermès, 2009.
• Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, "L’idée de naturalisation de l’objet technique chez Simondon", in Miroir, appareils et autres dispositifs, ed. Soko Phay-Vakalis, Paris: L’Harmattan, 2009.
• Vincent Bontems, "Actualité d’une philosophie des machines. Gilbert Simondon, les Hadrons et les Nanotechnologies", Revue de Synthèse 1 (Jan-Mar 2009), Paris: Springer.
• Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, "'Du mort qui saisit le vif': Simondonian Ontology Today", trans. Justin Clemens, Parrhesia 7 (2009); repr. in Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology, Edinburgh University Press, 2012, pp 110-120. (in English)
• Igor Krtolica, "The Question of Anxiety in Gilbert Simondon", trans. Jon Roffe, Parrhesia 7 (2009); repr. in Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology, Edinburgh University Press, 2012, pp 73-91. (in English)
• Brian Massumi, with Arne De Boever, Alex Murray and Jon Roffe, "'Technical Mentality' Revisited: Brian Massumi on Gilbert Simondon", Parrhesia 7 (2009), pp 36-45; repr. in Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology, Edinburgh University Press, 2012, pp 19-36. (in English)
• Paolo Virno, "Angels and the General Intellect: Individuation in Duns Scotus and Gilbert Simondon", trans. Nick Heron, Parrhesia 7 (2009). (in English)
• Andrea Bardin, "Simondon: transcendantal et individuation", in Les métamorphoses du transcendantal. Parcours multiples de Kant à Deleuze, ed. G. Rametta, Hildesheim/Zurich/New York: Georg Olms, 2009, pp 189-215.
• Andrea Bardin, S. Pellarin, D. Vicenzutto, "Creencia y fundación de la identidad comunitaria: Simondon, Nancy y Lacan", Kath’autón 3 (2009), pp 38-45. (in Spanish)
• Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, "Technique et culture chez Simondon", in Prométhée et son double, eds. Robert Belot and Laurent Heyberger, Alphil - Presses universitaires suisses, 2010.
• Erich Hörl, "Die künstliche Intelligenz des Sinns: Sinngeschichte und Technologie im Anschluss and Jean-Luc Nancy", Zeitschrift für Medien- und Kulturforschung 2 (2010), pp 129-147. (in German)
  • "The Artificial Intelligence of Sense: The History of Sense and Technology after Jean-Luc Nancy (by way of Gilbert Simondon)", trans. Arne De Boever, Parrhesia 17 (2013), pp 11-24. (in English)
• Couze Venn, "Individuation, Relationality, Affect: Rethinking the Human in Relation to the Living", Body & Society 16:1 (March 2010), pp 129-161. (in English) [24]
• Pablo Rodriguez, "Sur le lien entre humanisme moderne et philosophie de la technique: Martin Heidegger et Gilbert Simondon", Revue Ibéroaméricaine de Science, Technologie et Société, Buenos Aires: Centro Redes, 2010.
• Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, "What New Humanism Today?", trans. C. Turner, Cultural Politics 6:2 (July 2010), pp 237-252. (in English) [25]
• Jean-Yves Château, "Genèse et concrétisation des objets techniques dans Du mode d’existence des objets techniques de Gilbert Simondon", Philopsis, Paris, 2010.
• Simon Mills, "Concrete Software: Simondon’s mechanology and the techno-social", Fibreculture 18 (2011). (in English)
• Emeline Deroo, "On the Effects of a Fictitious Encounter between Alfred North Whitehead and Gilbert Simondon", in Ontological Landscapes: Recent Thought on Conceptual Interfaces Between Science and Philosophy, ed. Vesselin Petrov, Frankfurt: Ontos, 2011, pp 295-310. (in English)
• Vincent Bontems, "Le 'cycle de l’image' selon Gilbert Simondon. Une définition génétique de l’image scientifique", Visible 8 (2011), Limoges.
• Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, "Simondon, ein Denken der Technik im Dialog mit der Kybernetik", trans. K. Wojtyczka, in Die Technologische Bedingung, ed. Erich Hörl, Suhrkamp, 2011. (in German)
• Alexandra Bidet, Marielle Macé, "S'individuer, s'émanciper, risquer un style (autour de Simondon)", Revue du Mauss 38 (2011), La Découverte, pp 269-284.
• Vincent Bontems, "L’éthique de la technique chez Simondon et chez Gonseth", in L’Ethique en prise avec la 'réalité' et le pragmatisme de Ferdinand Gonseth, eds. Eric Emery and Lazare Benaroyo, Lausanne: Digilex, 2011.
• Anne Lefebvre, "The Individuation of Nature in Gilbert Simondon’s Philosophy and the Problematic Nature of the Technological Object", Techné 15:1 (July 2011), pp 1-15. (in English)
• Elizabeth Grosz, "Identity and Individuation: Some Feminist Reflections", in Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology, Edinburgh University Press, 2012, pp 37-56. (in English)
• Anne Sauvagnargues, "Crystals and Membranes: Individuation and Temporality", trans. Jon Roffe, in Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology, Edinburgh University Press, 2012, pp 57-70. (in English)
• Marie-Pier Boucher, "Infra-Psychic Individuation: Transductive Connections and the Genesis of Living Techniques", in Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology, Edinburgh University Press, 2012, pp 92-109. (in English)
• Yves Michaud, "The Aesthetics of Gilbert Simondon: Anticipation of the Contemporary Aesthetic Experience", trans. Justin Clemens, in Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology, Edinburgh University Press, 2012, pp 121-132. (in English)
• Sean Bowden, "Gilles Deleuze, a Reader of Gilbert Simondon", in Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology, Edinburgh University Press, 2012, pp 135-153. (in English)
• Miguel de Beistegui, "Science and Ontology: From Merleau-Ponty's 'Reduction' to Simondon's 'Transduction'", in Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology, Edinburgh University Press, 2012, pp 154-175. (in English)
• Dominique Lecourt, "The Question of the Individual in Georges Canguilhem and Gilbert Simondon", trans. Arne De Boever, in Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology, Edinburgh University Press, 2012, pp 176-184. (in English)
• Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, "Glossary: Fifty Key Terms in the Works of Gilbert Simondon", in Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology, Edinburgh University Press, 2012, pp 203-231. (in English)
• Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, "Simondon, de la 'Cybernétique universelle' à la techno-esthétique", Architecture and Ideas, Special issue on "Entropic Territories", ed. Alessandra Ponte, Toronto, 2012.
• Henning Schmidgen, "Machine Cinematography", Inflexions 5 (March 2012), pp 130-147. (in English)
• Thomas LaMarre, "Afterword: Humans and Machines", in Muriel Combes, Gilbert Simondon and the Philosophy of the Transindividual, MIT Press, 2012, pp 79-108, n116-119; repr. as "Humans and Machines", Inflexions 5 (March 2012), pp 29-67. (in English)
• Liliana da Escóssia, "Individuação e Informação em Gilbert Simondon", Informática na educação 15:1 (Jan/Jun 2012), Porto Alegre, pp 19-30. (in Portuguese)
• Elton Rogério Corbanezi, "Vida e Técnica: ressonâncias do pensamento de Canguilhem em Simondon", Informática na educação 15:1 (Jan/Jun 2012), Porto Alegre, pp 85-99. (in Portuguese)
• Vincent Bontems, "Simondon, le Progrès et l’évolution des lignées techniques", in Formes, Systèmes et Milieux techniques (après Simondon), eds. Daniel Parrochia and Valentina Tirloni, Lyon: Jacques André, 2012.
• Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, "Individuation et apoptose: repenser l’adaptation? (Simondon, le vivant et l’information)", in Nouvelles représentations du vivant en biologie et philosophie du vivant, eds. J-C. Ameisen and L. Cherlonnaix, De Boeck Université, 2013.
• Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, "Encyclopédisme et théorie de l’interdisciplinarité", Hermès 67 (2013).
• Ludovic Duhem, "Penser le numérique avec Simondon", NepH, Nouvelle revue de Philosophie, Special issue: "Philosophie du numérique", Paris, 2013.
• Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, Ludovic Duhem, "L’humanisme ne prend sens que comme combat contre un type d’aliénation", Tête-à-tête 5 (2013). Interview.
• Andrew Iliadis, "A New Individuation: Deleuze’s Simondon Connection", MediaTropes 4:1 (2013). [26]
• Ludovic Duhem, "'Entrer dans le moule'. Poïétique et individuation", La Part de l’Œil 26 (2013).
• Aud Sissel-Hoel, Iris van der Tuin, "The Ontological Force of Technicity: Reading Cassirer and Simondon Diffractively", Philosophy & Technology 26 (2013), pp 187-202. (in English)
• Andrea Bardin, Giovanni Carrozzini, "Simondon, tecnica e mito", in Filosofie del Mito, eds. G. Leghissa and E. Manera, Rome: Carocci, 2014. (in Italian)
• Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, "Individuation, individualisation et personnalisation chez Simondon", CIDES, 2014. Presented at the conference at Ecole Normale Supérieure de la rue d'Ulm, 19 January 2010.
• Andrea Bardin, "Against Ideological Determinism: Simondon's Political Epistemology", CIDES, 2014. (in English). [27]. Paper presented at the London Conference in Critical Thought, 7 June 2013. Part of it has been further developed as "On Substances and Causes Again: Simondon’s Philosophy of Individuation and the Critique of the Metaphysical Roots of Determinism", in Morphogenesis and Individuation, ed. F. Galofaro, et al., Springer, 2014.
• Baptiste Morizot, "Regarder sous le capot. L’œuvre de Simondon comme machine ouverte et métastable", CIDES, 2014.
• Marc J. De Vries, Andrew Feenberg, Arne De Boever & Aud Sissel Hoel, "Book Symposium on The Philosophy of Simondon: Between Technology and Individuation", Philosophy & Technology (2014), pp 1-26. (in English) [28]
• Thierry Bardini, "Simondon, Individuation and the Life Sciences: Interview with Anne Fagot-Largeault", Theory, Culture & Society, 2014. (in English) [29]
• Andrea Bardin, "On Substances and Causes Again: Simondon’s Philosophy of Individuation and the Critique of the Metaphysical Roots of Determinism", in Morphogenesis and Individuation, eds. A. Sarti, F. Montanari and F. Galofaro, Springer, 2015 (forthcoming). [30]

Biographies

• Nathalie Simondon, "Quelques éléments sur la vie et les travaux de Gilbert Simondon", undated. (in French). Simondon's biography with summaries of his major works.
  • "Gilbert Simondon: Biography", trans. Andrew Iliadis, 2013. (in English)

Theses

• Pascal Chabot, Processus technique et processus d’individuation dans la philosophie de Gilbert Simondon, Université libre de Bruxelles, 2001.
• Bernard Aspe, La pensée de l'individuation et la subjectivation politique, Université Paris VIII, 2002.
• Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, Sens et connaissance. A partir et en deça de Simondon, Université Paris VII - Denis Diderot, 2003.
• Ludovic Duhem, L'être préindividuel de l'oeuvre d'art. Simondon et le problème de l'esthétique, Université Lille 3, 2008.
• Giovanni Carrozzini, Gilbert Simondon filosofo della "mentalité technique", Università del Salento, 2010. (in Italian)
• Andrea Bardin, Individuazione, tecnica e sistemi sociali. Epistemologia e politica in Gilbert Simondon, Università degli studi di Padova, 2010, 359 pp. (in Italian)
• Baptiste Morizot, Hasard et individuation. Penser la rencontre comme invention à la lumière de l'oeuvre de Gilbert Simondon, E.N.S Lyon, 2011.
• Anne Lefebvre, De la pensée de l'image à l'image de la pensée. La philosophie de Gilbert Simondon à la lumière du problème de l'invention, Université Lille 3, 2011.
• Charlotte Knips, Die Spannung zwischen Organischem und Nicht-Organischem bei Deleuze, Guattari und Simondon, University of Leipzig, 2012. (in German)
• Simon Mills, Gilbert Simondon. Causality, Ontogenesis & Technology, Bristol: University of West England, 2014, 316 pp. (in English)

Documentary films

• Simondon du désert, dir. François Lagarde and Pascal Chabot, 2012. With Anne Fagot-Largeault, Arne De Boever, Dominique Lecourt, Gilbert Hottois, Giovanni Carrozzini, Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, Jean Clottes, and music by Jean-Luc Guillonet. Trailer, [31]

Bibliographies

• At Simondon.fr.
• By CIDES.
• Annotated select bibliography on Simondon by Tyler S. Fox. (in English)

Conferences and workshops on Simondon

• "La pensée de Gilbert Simondon peut-elle être utile à l'historien des techniques?", Le Masterclass Simondon, Université Paris 1, 7 June 2008. Podcast. (in French)
• Informação, tecnicidade, individuação: a urgência do pensamento de Gilbert Simondon, CTeMe, 2012. (in Portuguese)
• Gilbert Simondon et l'invention du futur, coord. Jean-Hugues Barthélémy and Vincent Bontems, CCIC, Cerisy-la-Salle, 2013. (in French)
• Gilbert Simondon & Digital Culture, workshop, coord. Yuk Hui, Erich Hörl and Jeremy Gilbert, Leuphana University, Lüneburg, 2013. The website contains audio recordings.

Links

• Gilbert Simondon: Site d'information sur l'œuvre et les publications (in French)
• International Center of Simondon Studies, dir. Jean-Hugues Barthélémy. (in French)
• Simondon on the website of Centre international d'étude de la philosophie française contemporaine (in French)
• Andrew Iliadis on Simondon
• Papers on Simondon at Academia.edu
• L'Atelier Simondon (in French)
• Simondon at Wikipedia
• Simondon's fan page on Facebook
• Simondon's fan account on Twitter