Gilbert Simondon, French Philisopher, philosophe français, Portrait Point to Point Studio

Gilbert Simondon was a French philosopher, whose philosophy of technology is sometimes indicated as neo-aristotelian. He studied at the Ecole Normale Supérieur and the Sorbonne University in Paris. As his main publication on technical artifacts, the book Du Mode d’existence des objets techniques (from now on to be abbreviated as Du Mode) was never translated into English, it remained fairly unknown and is quoted only rarely. If ever it is quoted or discussed it is in the context of Continentally-oriented philosophy of technology. For instance, Andrew Feenberg referred to Simondon’s work while discussing possible confusions between what he called primary and secondary instrumentalization. There are a few publications that have Simondon’s work as their primary focus. Paul Dumouchel presented a summary of Simondon’s main ideas, as explicated in Du Mode. Dumouchel, as Feenberg, seems to be more interested in the implication of Simondon’s writings for our view on the impact of technology on society and culture than on his ideas about the development of technical artifacts. Simondon’s work was also discussed in a paper by Henning Schmidgen. Schmidgen’s motive for reading Simondon was primarily an interest in the history of science and technology more than an analytical-philosophical interest in technical artifacts. Finally I want to mention a paper by Adrian Mackenzie in which he discusses Du Mode in the context of a review of the social-constructivist approach to technology. Gilbert Simondon and the Dual Nature of Technical Artifacts Marc J. de Vries read more

Gilbert Simondon - Jean Le Moyne Entretien sur la mécanologie.# 2

Office National du Film du Canada, 1968 Bibliothèque et archives Nationale du Québec

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Gilbert Simondon, est un philosophe français à maturité dans les années soixante ; penseur pédagogue il propose de regarder l'outil, la technique, comme un objet sensible ayant des "choses" à dire. Attentif à son développement: il "l'écoute". Le considère comme une potentialité énergétique qui se distingue de l'ensemble, l'objet est concret, mais n'est jamais donné une fois pour toutes. Comme l'individu il est en devenir, et l'on peut dire qu'il ne s'arrête jamais de se transformer. Qu'à partir des contacts tous azimuts qu'il entretient pour son développement il n'est pas une entité définie par sa fonction, mais un processus continu.

"SImondon du désert" de François Lagarde - Trailer Hors Œil Éditions

Image, sound, editing, François Lagarde. Dialogue, Pascal Chabot.
Music, Jean-Luc Guionnet. Mixer: Mikaël Barre

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