A critical commentary on Simondon's Psychic and collective individuation. This book clarifies Simondon's complex terminology and structure through chapter by chapter commentary. It also invites a dialogue with other thinkers/philosophers and places the work in its historical context. It includes a discussion about Simondon's relevance to current ideas about biopolitics and post-Nietzschean ethics.
Alternative Title
Psychic and collective individuation : a critical introduction and guide
Ontogenesis and the concepts of individuation -- The individuation of perceptive unities and signification -- Individuation and affectivity -- Problematic of ontogenesis and psychic individuation -- The individual and the social, the individuation of the group -- The collective as condition of signification -- An ethics of ontogenesis and a non-human humanism.