Dividuations : Theories of participation / Michaela Ott.
Ott, Michaela.
2018
B790-5739
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Title Dividuations : Theories of participation / Michaela Ott.
Author Ott, Michaela.
ISBN 9783319720142 (electronic book)
3319720147 (electronic book)
9783319720135
3319720139
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (267 pages)
Call Number B790-5739
Dewey Decimal Classification 190
Summary This book offers an epistemological critique of the concept of the individual and of individuality. It argues that because of our bio(techno)logical entanglements with non-human others, billions of microorganisms and our multiple (in)voluntary participations in socio(techno)logical processes, we have to conceive of ourselves no longer as individuals, but as dividuations. This dividual character which enforces simultaneous and multidirectional participations in different spheres is also apt for other living beings, for entities such as the nation state, for single cultures, production processes and works of art. The critique of individuality in the book is also elaborated in critical re-readings of classical philosophical texts from Plato up to today; the new concept of dividuation is a modified and semantically enriched version of certain concepts of the French philosophers Gilbert Simondon and Gilles Deleuze.0.
Note This book offers an epistemological critique of the concept of the individual and of individuality. It argues that because of our bio(techno)logical entanglements with non-human others, billions of microorganisms and our multiple (in)voluntary participations in socio(techno)logical processes, we have to conceive of ourselves no longer as individuals, but as dividuations. This dividual character which enforces simultaneous and multidirectional participations in different spheres is also apt for other living beings, for entities such as the nation state, for single cultures, production processes and works of art. The critique of individuality in the book is also elaborated in critical re-readings of classical philosophical texts from Plato up to today; the new concept of dividuation is a modified and semantically enriched version of certain concepts of the French philosophers Gilbert Simondon and Gilles Deleuze.0.
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Introduction
1. Individual/Individuality/Individuation
2. Dividuals/Dividuations
3. Bio(techno)logical Dividuations
4. Socio(techno)logical Dividuations
5. Aesthetic and Artistic Dividuation Processes
Index.

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