Letiche, H., & Moriceau, J.-L. (2017). Simondon: Investigating the pre-organizational. Culture and Organization, 23(1), 1–13. doi:10.1080/14759551.2016.1240358. (Online 7 November 2016.)
Not read: only the abstract was reached (see the status note).
Why this is here
The owner asked for the works Bencherki, Brummans & Vézy (2024, LIT-1902) lean on. The parent quotes this paper four times (pp. 1355–1356):
- p. 1 “self-evolving, self-generating, and self-differentiating”, of individuation. Checked: the abstract says life objects, machines and societies “individuate; that is, they are self-evolving, self-generating and self-differentiating in what he calls processes of ‘transduction’”. Faithful.
- p. 1 “No one in particular is the subject of transduction”. Checked: verbatim in the abstract. Faithful.
- p. 7 “What were the affects and events from which individuation emerged?” Not checked.
- p. 8 “agency creates and destroys, frees and imprisons, all at once”, which the parent presents as the idea that “permeates” Simondon’s theory although “he does not refer explicitly to the concept of agency”. Not checked.
What the parent leaves out is visible in the abstract. Letiche and Moriceau call transduction “very problematic”. They say its knowability “remains unclear” and that it “would seem to escape the individual and/or collective will – becoming an all-important life-force outside political or ethical control”. The parent takes their description of transduction without their doubt about it. Its own answer to the charge of being apolitical (pp. 1366–1367) does not cite them. Whether the p. 8 sentence on agency is offered in the same critical spirit needs the full text.