Simondon and enaction: the articulation of life, subjectivity, and technics. (October 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dereclenne, Emilien
• Other Names: Steiner Pierre guest-editor.; Gapenne Olivier guest-editor.; Lenay Charles guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Adaptive behavior. Volume 29:Number 5(2021)
• Page Start: 449
• Page End: 458
• Publication Date: 2021-10
• Subjects: Life -- subjectivity -- technics -- cultural integration -- individuation -- transduction -- dialectic -- co-emergence -- imagination -- invention -- affectivity -- enactivism -- Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- Gilbert Simondon; Animal behavior -- Periodicals; Animals -- Adaptation -- Periodicals; Adaptability (Psychology) -- Periodicals; Adaptation, Psychological -- Periodicals; Artificial intelligence -- Periodicals; 591.5
• DOI: 10.1177/1059712319861915
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1741-2633

Abstract

Clear similarities may be found between enaction and Simondon's philosophy of individuation. In this article, and in the wake of recent research in the field of enaction, I argue that Simondon's work is relevant to our understanding of the articulation between life, subjectivity, and technics. In line with John Stewart, I define enaction as the dynamic relation whereby living organisms and their environment co-emerge, a process in which technics is revealed as "anthropologically constitutive." I show that this process is truly enlightened by Simondon's theory of imagination and invention.