Andrea Bardin is Professor of Political Philosophy in the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies at the University of Padua. He works on the relationship between science and political thought, and political anthropology from early modernity to the present. He has written extensively on Gilbert Simondon and Thomas Hobbes, and is the author of Epistemology and Political Philosophy in Gilbert Simondon: Individuation, Technics, Social Systems (Springer, 2015) and Hobbes’s Materialist Agenda: The Politics of Early Modern Science (Edinburgh University Press, 2026). Marco Ferrari is Lecturer in Political Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology at the University of Padua. His research focuses on the history of human, social, and political sciences, examined from a historical-epistemological perspective. He has written extensively on psychoanalysis and cybernetics and has translated works by notable authors such as Jean-Claude Milner, Philip Mirowski, and Gilbert Simondon into Italian. Additionally, he has edited the Italian editions of Norbert Wiener’s Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (Orthotes, forthcoming) and Alain Badiou’s works, L’être et l’événement and Logiques des mondes (Mimesis, 2018 and 2019) with Pierpaolo Cesaroni and Giovanni Minozzi. His most recent publications include Cibernetica e filosofia politica. Storia e critica di un ostacolo epistemologico (Orthotes, 2024), Filosofia, psicoanalisi, politica. Un laboratorio (Padova University Press, 2024) with Pierpaolo Cesaroni and Lorenzo Rustighi, and Leggere...o peggio. Il Seminario XIX di Jacques Lacan (Galaad, 2023). Anaïs Nony is Senior Researcher at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study where she leads the 'AI & Life Matters' research stream and Associate Researcher at the Institut de Recherche et d'Innovation in Paris. She studied theatre at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle and philosophy at the University of Minnesota, where she wrote her doctoral thesis under the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler. Her book Performative Images: A Philosophy of Video Art Technology in France (Amsterdam University Press, 2023) shows how digital media technologies are dramatically shaping our aesthetic, political and epistemological landscapes. Her essays have appeared in the journals Philosophy Today, Cultural Critique, Parallax, The Moving Image, La Deleuziana, Intermediality: History and Theory of the Arts and Trópos: Journal of Hermeneutics and Philosophical Criticism, as well as in numerous edited collections. Since 2014, she is an editorial board member of the journal La Deleuziana. Gregorio Tenti is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona. His research interests include environmental aesthetics, philosophy of nature, and the history of modern German philosophy. His current project investigates how the eco-politics of extinction intertwines with language and writing. He is the author of Estetica e morfologia in Gilbert Simondon (Mimesis, 2020) and L’estetica di Friedrich Schleiermacher (ETS, 2023).

Gilbert Simondon may be the most important philosopher to help our age turn towards more sustainable directions. His philosophy of technics and individuation provides the deepest antidote to the current fracking of our planet, societies and mind. This volume is the best possible introduction and guide through his complex and fascinating mode of thinking. It includes a translation of a brief original text that expresses the core of his approach in a nutshell. It digs deep into very diverse aspects of his inquiries, while synthetically surveying their broadest scope. It articulates a very original ecotechnological perspective that paves the way towards a reconciliation between technical developments, care for the environment, and enhancement of our common goods.

• Editors’ Introduction: Simondon for the Twenty-first CenturyAndrea Bardin, Marco Ferrari, Anaïs Nony and Gregorio TentiAmplification in Information Processes (1962)Gilbert Simondon, translated by Benoit Dillet and Anaïs NonyPublications by Gilbert SimondonPart I Individuations1. Simondon and Physical IndividuationGus Hewlett2. Simondon and the Individuation of Living BeingsGiovanni Carrozzini3. Simondon, Psychology and Psychic IndividuationLina Marcela Gil-Congote and Germán Vargas Guillén4. Simondon and Technical Individuation (What is Called AI?)Vincent Bontems5. Simondon and Transindividual Individuation: Technicity and Affectivity inDigital NetworksJuan Manuel Heredia and Pablo Rodríguez6. Individuating Simondon: The Cold War and the Politics of ‘Industrial Society’Giovanni MenegallePart II Themes7. Simondon’s Metaphysics: Back to PhysisClémentine Lessard8. Simondon and PhysicsJean-Hugues Barthélémy9. Biological Individuation and its Dynamism in SimondonIsabella Builes Roldán and Jorge William Montoya Santamaría10. Simondon and Form: A Pluralism of NatureGregorio Tenti11. Simondon and Information: A Qualitative Topological ConceptCécile Malaspina12. Transducting Cybernetics: What Place for Cybernetics in Simondon’s Philosophy?Marco FerrariPart III Interpretations13. Simondon’s Magic Unity: The Ecosocial Evolution of Humanness and TechnicityMark Hansen14. Simondon: Invention and ImageDaniela Voss15. Simondon: Technics and PoliticsXavier Guchet16. The Optative: Simondon on Technical and Ethical InventionSimon Mills17. Simondon’s Politics of Human Nature: Techno-Symbolic Mediums andTransindividual InventionAndrea Bardin18. Simondon’s Philosophy and the Ethics of Artificial IntelligenceAnaïs NonyPart IV Beyond Simondon19. From Individuation to the Transindividual: Simondon through Althusser Vittorio Morfino20. Simondon and the Operative Scheme of Money Diego Viana21. Techno-Judicial Culture from Hans Kelsen to Bob Dylan: For a SimondonianJurisprudenceGonzalo S. Aguirre22. Architects Harnessing Artificial Intelligence: A Simondonian Perspective Sébastien Bourbonnais and Maurane Paradis23. Ecology, Technology and Culture after SimondonLudovic DuhemPostface: The Life and Works of Gilbert Simondon Nathalie SimondonNotes on contributors Index