Keynote Session 3, Cecile Malaspina, Q&A & Discussion

Here is the Q&A and discussion which followed Cecile Malaspina's keynote talk entitled "The Material Intellect: Simondon and the Individuation of Thought and Matter"
Culture & Technics: The Politics of Simondon’s Du Mode
Culture & Technics: The Politics of Simondon’s Du Mode
Centre for Critical Thought,
Department of Politics & IR,
University of Kent, Canterbury
13th-15th September 2018
Filmed and edited by Ben Cook (Anti-Type Films & The 12.01 Project)

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I love this discussion, but on the first exchange between Hui and Malaspina about the paradoxical "imprint" of infinity in the technical object, I think Simondon gave another phrase that makes this clearer, that the technical object "carries forward" that infinity of potential. I'm still a bit confused about Hui's point here though, to be honest! He seems especially skeptical of transindividuality rather than mere contingency in the technical object? But Simondon strikes me as much more open to seeing the 'analogies' for the three phases within all material structures, and only differentiates them so starkly to focus on their most "conspicuous" manifestations (i.e. from the physical to the psychic to the social). There's so much more information carried in transindividuality than contingency alone (i.e. noise, points of variation, possible error).