Simondoniana

Review (2022)
Author(s)

Stavros Kousoulas (TU Delft - Theory, Territories & Transitions)

Gokhan Kodalak (Pratt Institute)

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https://doi.org/10.7480/footprint.16.1.6162 Final published version
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Publication Year
2022
Language
English
Issue number
1 #30
Volume number
16
Pages (from-to)
91-106
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Abstract

Why Simondon in a volume dedicated to Stiegler? It is not that Stiegler’s oeuvre cannot be examined without referring to the crucial influence that Simondon had for his thought. More important than this, it is only through Simondon that Stiegler makes sense. Simondon is keen to remind us that sense, first and foremost, stands for directionality: to make sense is to grasp a direction. Without Simondon’s critical reformulation of our technological becoming, Stiegler’s project remains null. In a non-zero-sum game, Stiegler through Simondon and (retroactively) Simondon through Stiegler, produce the norms and values of a directing sense that can indeed compel us to engage in our worldly endeavours with neganthropic care.