Format:
1 online resource (227 pages)
ISBN:
9783319051017
Series Statement:
Lecture Notes in Morphogenesis Ser.
Content:
This contributed volume aims to reconsider the concept of individuation, clarifying its articulation with respect to contemporary problems in perceptual, neural, developmental, semiotic and social morphogenesis. The authors approach the ontogenetical issue by taking into account the morphogenetic process, involving the concept of individuation proposed by Gilbert Simondon and Gilles Deleuze. The target audience primarily comprises experts in the field but the book may also be beneficial for graduate students. The challenge of the genesis and constitution of "units" has always been at the center of philosophical and scientific research. This ontogenetical issue is common to every discipline but it is articulated in different ways: in phenomenology of perception the constitution of perceptual units is at the base of gestalt field theories, in theoretical neuroscience synchronized neural assemblies are considered as correlates of conscious processes, in developmental embryogenesis the constitution of organs is the principle outcome of morphodynamic evolution while in social morphogenesis the constitution of coherent units is common to segmentary, gerarchic and functional differentiation.
Content:
Intro -- Foreword -- Contents -- Part I Rethinking Individuationand Morphogenesis -- 1 On Substances and Causes Again: Simondon's Philosophy of Individuation and the Critique of the Metaphysical Roots of Determinism -- Abstract -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Fascination with Clinamen -- 1.3 The Philosophy of Individuation and Its Paradigms -- 1.3.1 The Structure (the Individual as a System) -- 1.3.2 The Process (Individuation as Operation) -- 1.3.3 Singularity, Transduction and the Individuation of Knowledge -- 1.3.4 A Departure from the `Deterministic Age' of Metaphysical Dualism -- 1.4 Beyond the Querelle Over Determinism: On Canguilhem's Footprints -- References -- 2 How to Invent a Form: An Inquiry into Gilbert Simondon's Philosophy of Perception -- Abstract -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Distance Between Simondon's Allagmatic and Determinism and Pure Indeterminism -- 2.3 Form and Information in Concrete Perceptive Situations -- 2.4 Long Duration Perception: An Example of Concrete Perceptive Situation -- 2.5 Concluding Remarks -- References -- 3 Individuation and Semiogenesis: An Interplay Between Geometric Harmonics and Structural Morphodynamics -- Abstract -- 3.1 Individuation and Semiogenesis -- 3.1.1 Individuation of Forms and Spaces -- 3.1.2 The Semiotic Extension -- 3.2 The Individuation of Perceptual Units -- 3.2.1 The Geometrical Structure of the Primary Visual Cortex -- 3.2.2 The Relational Field Induced by an Image -- 3.2.3 From the Relational Field to Perceptual Individuation -- 3.3 The Formants of Visual Semiotics -- 3.3.1 First Opposition: Figure/Ground -- 3.3.2 2nd, 3th, 4th Oppositions: The Formemes of Plastic Forms -- 3.3.3 The Reduced Space as Spectral Embedding -- 3.4 The Introduction of a Semiotic Extension -- 3.5 The Functional Architecture of Sign -- 3.5.1 The Phenomenological Argument -- 3.5.2 The Mathematical Argument.
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Foreword; Contents; Part IRethinking Individuationand Morphogenesis; 1 On Substances and Causes Again: Simondon's Philosophy of Individuation and the Critique of the Metaphysical Roots of Determinism; Abstract; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Fascination with Clinamen; 1.3 The Philosophy of Individuation and Its Paradigms; 1.3.1 The Structure (the Individual as a System); 1.3.2 The Process (Individuation as Operation); 1.3.3 Singularity, Transduction and the Individuation of Knowledge; 1.3.4 A Departure from the `Deterministic Age' of Metaphysical Dualism
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1.4 Beyond the Querelle Over Determinism: On Canguilhem's FootprintsReferences; 2 How to Invent a Form: An Inquiry into Gilbert Simondon's Philosophy of Perception; Abstract; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 The Distance Between Simondon's Allagmatic and Determinism and Pure Indeterminism; 2.3 Form and Information in Concrete Perceptive Situations; 2.4 Long Duration Perception: An Example of Concrete Perceptive Situation; 2.5 Concluding Remarks; References; 3 Individuation and Semiogenesis: An Interplay Between Geometric Harmonics and Structural Morphodynamics; Abstract
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3.1 Individuation and Semiogenesis3.1.1 Individuation of Forms and Spaces; 3.1.2 The Semiotic Extension; 3.2 The Individuation of Perceptual Units; 3.2.1 The Geometrical Structure of the Primary Visual Cortex; 3.2.2 The Relational Field Induced by an Image; 3.2.3 From the Relational Field to Perceptual Individuation; 3.3 The Formants of Visual Semiotics; 3.3.1 First Opposition: Figure/Ground; 3.3.2 2nd, 3th, 4th Oppositions: The Formemes of Plastic Forms; 3.3.3 The Reduced Space as Spectral Embedding; 3.4 The Introduction of a Semiotic Extension; 3.5 The Functional Architecture of Sign
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3.5.1 The Phenomenological Argument3.5.2 The Mathematical Argument; 3.5.3 The Architectural Argument; 3.5.4 The Connection Between Gestalten and Sign; References; 4 Morphogenesis Under Construction: Tracing the Process of Individuation Along Physico-Aesthetic Coordinates; Abstract; 4.1 Conditions of Morphogenesis 1: Individuation, Transduction and Disparation in Simondon; 4.2 Conditions of Morphogenesis 2: Dramatization in Deleuze, Haecceities in Deleuze and Guattari; 4.3 From the Spatio-Temporal Drama to the Pragmatics of Realization: The Concept of Asymmetry; 4.4 Information as Singularity
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4.5 Towards an Aesthetics of `Image'4.6 Morphogenesis Versus Bio-info Sensibility; References; Part IIMorphologies, Culture, and Spaces; 5 The Cultural Individuation of Human Language Capacity and the Morphogenesis of Basic Argument-Schemata; Abstract; 5.1 Darwin Revisited and the Relevance of Morphogenesis; 5.1.1 Morpho- and Semiogenesis; 5.1.2 The Impact of Individuation; 5.1.3 Tradigenetic and Ratiogenetic Processes; 5.2 The Morphogenesis of Linguistic (Symbolic) ``Tools''; 5.3 Thom's Conjecture and the Morphogenesis of a Complex Language
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5.3.1 Sketch of the Topologico-Dynamic Basis (Thom's Conjecture)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783319051000
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9783319051000
Language:
English
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