Differences in Becoming. Gilbert Simondon and Gilles Deleuze on Individuation
Journal
Philosophy Today
ISSN
0031-8256
ISSN-Digital
2329-8596
Type
journal article
Date Issued
2017-09
Author(s)
Abstract
For a long time, Gilbert Simondon’s work was known only as either a philosophy restricted to the problem of technology or as an inspirational source for Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy of difference. As Simondon’s thinking is now finally in the process of being recognized in its own right as one of the most original philosophies of the twentieth century, this also entails that some critical work needs to be done to disentangle it from an all too hasty identification with (or even subsumption under) Deleuzian categories. While both Simondon and Deleuze have made crucial contributions towards a theory of differential individuation that significantly diverges from other authors associated with French poststructuralism insofar as they insist on the dynamic and vital dimension of difference, they also differ on crucial points. Whereas Simondon sees the process of becoming as transductive amplification, Deleuze theorizes it as intensifying involution, leading to two notably distinct concepts of difference.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
SHSS - Kulturen, Institutionen, Maerkte (KIM)
Publisher
DePaul Univ.
Publisher place
Chicago, Ill.
Volume
61
Number
3
Start page
475
End page
502
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
252015