Textures of life: a philosophy for the machines

Abstract

The problem of technical ensembles and nets, as singularized by Gilbert Simondon in his first book, constitute an interesting way of thinking towards a critical un-derstanding of productive, creative and scientific attitudes in our contemporaneity. In this article, the general lines of this problem are discussed, demonstrating how Simondon’s notions of technicity and coupling are in debt with the idea of a creative evolution. Consid-ered in their modes of existence, machines cannot be reduced to a simple amount of me-chanical equipments. Technical objects are developed within a singular temporality. The concept of individuation is an important key in order to think the temporal development of these objects as a significant historical difference.