The point of departure for Du mode d'existence des objets techniques is a crisis, a conflict between culture and technology, born of a misunderstanding of technology on the part of a culture considering technology as a "foreign reality" (ΜΈΟΤ, 9) and rejecting it in these terms. "Technical culture" thus gives a name to a manner of thinking that will bear the burden of resolving this conflict, and from the outset, Simondon tells us that only a philosophical manner of thinking can take on the task of rendering culture and technics compatible.
— Gilbert Simondon and the philosophy of the transindividual by Muriel Combes (Page 57)
As this book is an anthology of Simondon's philosophies, it often references them in small parts. The book referenced here is one of those. Much of Simondon's work is still not translated into English so I use these texts as my only point of reference (interestingly one step removed, as so much of Simondon's thinking seems to go into abstraction and language).