Organism-oriented ontology / Audrone Žukauskaite.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Žukauskaitė, Audronė, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conscience.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 172 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, 2023.

Summary:

Discussing different aspects of the philosophy of Gilbert Simondon, Raymond Ruyer, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, and including some contemporary thinkers, such as Catherine Malabou, Bernard Stiegler, Bruno Latour, and Donna J. Haraway, Audronė Žukauskaitė argues that all these threads can be seen as precursors to organism-oriented ontology.<br><br>Rather than concentrating on individuals and identities, contemporary philosophy is increasingly interested in processes, multiplicities and potential for change, that is, in those features that define living beings. Žukauskaitė argues that the capacity of living beings for self-organisation, creativity and contingency can act as an antidote to biopolitical power and control in the times of the Anthropocene.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Towards an Organism-Oriented Ontology

The Thinking of the Organic

Autopoietic Systems

Organism-Oriented Ontology

Outline of Chapters

1 Gilbert Simondon: From Ontology to Ontogenesis

Physical Individuation: Transduction

Biological Individuation: The Membrane

Psychical Individuation: The Transindividual

Conclusion

2 Raymond Ruyer: Organic Consciousness

Morphogenesis: Between Preformationism and Finalism

Equipotentiality

Types of Forms, Types of Consciousnesses

Self-Survey without a Self

3 Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's Philosophy of Life

Individuation as Differentiation

The Deconstruction of an Organism

The Brain: Between the Mental and the Cerebral

4 Catherine Malabou: Plasticity of Reason

Plasticity and Potentiality

Damasio: From the Neuronal to the Mental

Malabou: Between the Neuronal and the Mental

Epigenesis and Reason

5 General Organology: Between Organism and Machine

Simondon on Technical Objects

Stiegler's General Organology

Hui's Cosmotechnics

6 Planetary Organism

The Gaia Hypothesis

Gaia and the Theory of Autopoiesis

Gaia and Actor-Network Theory

Gaia and the Theory of Sympoiesis

7 Hybrid Organism

Sympoiesis as 'Making-With'

Immunity and Contagion

Hybrids and Chimeras

Conclusion: Organism­Oriented Ontology

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Mar 2025).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-3995-1057-6

1-3995-1056-8

OCLC:

1391438942