Pascal Chabot: The Philosophy of Simondon: Between Technology and Individuation (2003/2013) [FR, EN]
Filed under book | Tags: · cybernetics, individuation, marxism, philosophy, philosophy of technology, technology
“The last two decades have seen a massive increase in the scholarly interest in technology, and have provoked new lines of thought in philosophy, sociology and cultural studies. Gilbert Simondon (1924 – 1989) was one of Frances’s most influential philosophers in this field, and an important influence on the work of Gilles Deleuze and Bernard Stiegler. His work is only now being translated into English. Chabot’s introduction to Simondon’s work was published in French in 2002 and is now available in English for the first time. It is the most accessible guide to Simondon’s important but often opaque work. Chabot provides an excellent introduction to Simondon, positioning him as a philosopher of technology, and he describes his theory of individuation including his crystalline ontology. He goes on to offer a bridge between these two concerns, exploring how they are related.”
French edition
Publisher Vrin, 2003
ISBN 9782711616008
160 pages
English edition
Translated by Aliza Krefetz with the participation of Graeme Kirkpatrick
Publisher Bloomsbury Academic, 2013
ISBN 1780930976, 9781780930978
156 pages
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Review: Aud Sissel Hoel (Phil & Technology, EN)
La philosophie de Simondon (French, no OCR)
The Philosophy of Simondon (English)
Sven-Olov Wallenstein: Nihilism, Art, and Technology (2010)
Filed under thesis | Tags: · aesthetics, architecture, art, art history, avant-garde, nihilism, philosophy, technology
Beginning in an analysis of three paradigmatic instances of the encounter between art and technology in modernism—the invention of photography, the step beyond art in Futurism and Constructivism, and the interpretation of technology in debates on architectural theory in the 1920s and ’30s—this book analyzes three philosophical responses to the question of nihilism—those of Walter Benjamin, Ernst Jünger, and Martin Heidegger—all of which are characterized by an avant-garde sensibility that looks to art as a way to counter the crisis of modernity.
These responses are then brought to bear on the work of the architect Mies van der Rohe, whose “silence”—understood as a withdrawal of language, sense, and aesthetic perception—is analyzed as a key problem in the interpretation of the legacy of modernism. From this, a different understanding of nihilism, art, and technology emerges. These concepts form a field of constant modulation, which implies that the foundations of critical theory must be subjected to a historical analysis that acknowledges them as ongoing processes of construction, and that also accounts for the capacity of technologies and artistic practices to intervene in the formation of philosophical concepts.
Originally presented as a compilation thesis in theoretical philosophy, the work was published as a book by Axl Books in 2011.
Doctoral Thesis
Department of Philosophy, Stockholm University, 2010
ISBN 9789174470734
92 pages
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Comment (0)Studies of Material Thinking journal, Vols. 1–9 (2007–13)
Filed under journal | Tags: · art, design, experimental art, materialism, philosophy, technology
Studies in Material Thinking is an international journal that reports on the peer reviewed work of artists, designers and writers. It is a vehicle to support the communication and critique of artistic and design research from the vantage point of both the materiality and the poetics of creative research. The journal aims to develop a series of divergent positions, critical approaches and contestations around the term ‘material thinking’, centred as it is on an understanding of making, invention, design, creative practice and research methodology.
Editor-in-chief: Nancy de Freitas
Associate editors: Eva Lutnæs, Maarit Mäkela, Alan Young
ISSN 1177-6234
Vol. 1:1: At the Intersection of Poesis and Praxis: Material thinking provocations (2007, PDF articles)
Vol. 1:2: Independent responses to Paul Carter’s Theory (2008, PDF articles)
Vol. 3: Material Thinking as Document (2009, PDF articles)
Vol. 4: Materiality of Drawing/Thinking (2010, PDF articles)
Vol. 5: (Im)materialising Time (2011, PDF articles)
Vol. 6: Research Outputs in Art and Design (2011, PDF articles)
Vol. 7: Where Art, Technology and Design Meet (2012, PDF articles)
Vol. 8: Experimental Arts (eds. Jill Bennett, Ross Harley, Douglas Kahn and Paul Thomas, 2012, PDF articles)
Vol. 9: Inside Making (eds. Nancy de Freitas and Eva Lutnæs, 2013, PDF articles)