Simondon for dummies
4 stars
Gilbert Simondon's philosophy is not widely translated into English, so most readers need to approach his writing from secondary sources like this. A friend who is a scholar of Simondon recommended this as a starting point.
The book gives a broad overview of how the philosopher entangled metaphor, technology and social behaviours in his philosophies. The language is dense and often difficult, but feels necessarily so as Simondon himself wrote very dense texts. Muriel Combes does a good job of dividing up his ideas into categories, and this becomes an anthology. It is certainly a good starting point, but I am not sure I am ready to fully embrace or understand Simondon, as I find many of the ideas seem contradictory or too opaque to fully grasp. This, I believe, is my own problem and not that of either the philosopher or the author of this book.
