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(2018) French philosophy of technology, Dordrecht, Springer.
This chapter provides a brief survey of the current uses of Gilbert Simondon's philosophy of technology. The long-lasting lack of translation of his book Du Mode d'existence des objets techniques (1958) explains that the English-speaking readership knows little of his rich and deep thinking, but there is a significant trend of simondonian researches in Argentina, France, Germany and Italy. My analysis on the ongoing researches using Simondon's philosophy of technology follows three paths: techno-sciences, ">techno-aesthetics and techno-politics. The first focuses on the scientific design and technological concretization of research objects and instrumentation: technology is no more the mere outcome of research; it is a full-fledged epistemological element of techno-science. Simondon has proposed techno-aesthetics as an original theory of an aesthetic of technical which inspires many studies about industrial design. His philosophy of technology has also techno-political implication since its aim is to reintegrate technology into Culture in order to allow a mutual emancipation of man and machine.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-89518-5_3
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Bontems, V. (2018)., On the current uses of Simondon's philosophy of technology, in S. Loeve, X. Guchet & B. Bensaude-Vincent (eds.), French philosophy of technology, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 37-49.
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