The à la carte menu below consists of a few recommendations from Sander Mulder to familiarize yourself with the French biological philosophy of technology. Always open for recommendations via my email at the Delft University of Technology or via firstname.lastname [at] yppah.com. Last edited: 25.3.02023

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Chabot, P. (2013). Philosophy of Simondon: between technology and individuation. Bloomsbury.

Accessible book with key notions on the philosophy of Gilbert Simondon. Translated from French.

€ student budget

[documentary, 1h49]
Chabot, P., & Lagarde, F. (2012). Simondon du désert. Hors œil éditions;

Beautiful documentary on Gilbert Simondon by way of contemporary scholars. Available via https://vimeo.com/156520798

€ free

[edited book]
Loeve, S., Guchet, X., & Bensaude-Vincent, B. (Eds.). (2018). French Philosophy of Technology (Vol. 29). Springer International Publishing AG.

€ check your (university) library for licensed access.

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will come here e.g. a great review paper

food for thought
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Mains

[book]
Simondon, G. (2013). L’individuation à la lumière des notions de forme et d’information

This is Simondon’s main thesis for the Doctorat d’Etat, written between 1954 and 1958. 2nd ed.). Jérôme Millon.

Also av. in English in a good translation:

Simondon, G. (2020). Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information Volume I (T. Adkins, Trans.; Vol. 1). University of Minnesota Press.

Simondon, G. (2020). Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information Volume II: Supplemental Texts (T. Adkins, Trans.; Vol. 2). University of Minnesota Press. 

[book]
Canguilhem, G. (1966). Le normal et le pathologique. Presses Universitaires de France

Canguilhem, G. (1989). The normal and the pathological (C. R. Fawcett & R. S. Cohen, Trans.; 4th ed.). Zone Books

This book is on my bucket-list.

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Simondon, G. (1958). Du mode d’existence des objets techniques. Aubier.

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Also av. in English in a good translation:

Simondon, G. (2017). On The Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (C. Malaspina & J. Rogrove, Trans.; 1st ed.). Univocal Publishing.

€ French original is affordable if bought 2nd hand e.g. via Abebooks.de or .com
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Hui, Y. (2016). On the Existence of Digital Objects (Vol. 48). University of Minnesota Press.

Quite heavy on the stomach. An interesting philosophical extension of Simondon’s notion of object.

€ 26,99 or € 15,99 as ebook

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will come here e.g. Gaston Bachelard

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will come here e.g. Isabelle Stengers

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Desserts

[website]
This website has a selection of references to Gilbert Simondon’s work: Monoskop on Gilbert Simondon
€ free

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