Animality in Simondonian Individuation.

This paper explores Gilbert Simondon’s Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information, taking the question of animality as the guiding thread. It analyzes whether in this book there is an anthropological approach that allows us to sharply separate the individuation of man from that of other animals. The initial hypothesis is that such a conception of anthropogenesis, with the humanist exceptionalism and speciesism that it implies, is incompatible with the system deployed there by Simondon. Throughout the paper, it is highlighted that Simondon’s ontology, with its ambiguities and tensions around this issue, demands to think of another concept of animality than the one he inherits from the philosophical tradition against which he stands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]