Disparate Politics: Balibar and Simondon. Issue 1 (2nd January 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Voss, Daniela
• Is Part Of: Australasian philosophical review. Volume 2:Issue 1(2018)
• Page Start: 47
• Page End: 53
• Publication Date: 2018-01-02
• Subjects: Balibar -- disparation -- individuation -- Simondon -- transindividual -- transcendental conditions; Philosophy -- Periodicals; 101
• DOI: 10.1080/24740500.2018.1514966
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2474-0500

Abstract

Abstract: At the beginning of his essay 'Philosophies of the Transindividual: Spinoza, Marx, Freud', Balibar [2018 ] hints at some reasons why he will not be dealing with Simondon, despite agreeing with the latter's program of going beyond 'the metaphysics of the subject and of substance' and towards an 'ontology of relations'. In what follows I would like to outline Simondon's concept of transindividuality and spell out more clearly why Balibar cannot follow Simondon's trajectory. At the same time, I suggest a number of socio-political approaches that a specifically Simondonian concept of transindividuality opens up.