Organism-Oriented Ontology
Discussing different aspects of the philosophy of Gilbert Simondon, Raymond Ruyer, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, and including some contemporary thinkers, such as Catherine Malabou, Bernard Stiegler, Bruno Latour, and Donna J. Haraway, Audronė Žukauskaitė argues that all these threads can be seen as precursors to organism-oriented ontology.
Rather than concentrating on individuals and identities, contemporary philosophy is increasingly interested in processes, multiplicities and potential for change, that is, in those features that define living beings. Žukauskaitė argues that the capacity of living beings for self-organisation, creativity and contingency can act as an antidote to biopolitical power and control in the times of the Anthropocene.

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Organism-Oriented Ontology
Discussing different aspects of the philosophy of Gilbert Simondon, Raymond Ruyer, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, and including some contemporary thinkers, such as Catherine Malabou, Bernard Stiegler, Bruno Latour, and Donna J. Haraway, Audronė Žukauskaitė argues that all these threads can be seen as precursors to organism-oriented ontology.
Rather than concentrating on individuals and identities, contemporary philosophy is increasingly interested in processes, multiplicities and potential for change, that is, in those features that define living beings. Žukauskaitė argues that the capacity of living beings for self-organisation, creativity and contingency can act as an antidote to biopolitical power and control in the times of the Anthropocene.

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Organism-Oriented Ontology

Organism-Oriented Ontology

by Audrone Zukauskaite
Organism-Oriented Ontology

Organism-Oriented Ontology

by Audrone Zukauskaite

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Discussing different aspects of the philosophy of Gilbert Simondon, Raymond Ruyer, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, and including some contemporary thinkers, such as Catherine Malabou, Bernard Stiegler, Bruno Latour, and Donna J. Haraway, Audronė Žukauskaitė argues that all these threads can be seen as precursors to organism-oriented ontology.
Rather than concentrating on individuals and identities, contemporary philosophy is increasingly interested in processes, multiplicities and potential for change, that is, in those features that define living beings. Žukauskaitė argues that the capacity of living beings for self-organisation, creativity and contingency can act as an antidote to biopolitical power and control in the times of the Anthropocene.


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ISBN-13: 9781399510554
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 05/31/2025
Pages: 184
Product dimensions: 5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Audronė Žukauskaitė is Chief Researcher in the Department of Contemporary Philosophy at the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute. Her publications include From Biopolitics to Biophilosophy (2016, in Lithuanian) and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s Philosophy: The Logic of Multiplicity (2011, in Lithuanian). She co-edited Life in the Posthuman Condition: Critical Responses to the Anthropocene (Edinburgh UniversityPress, 2023), Interrogating Antigone in Postmodern Philosophy and Criticism, (Oxford UniversityPress, 2010), Deleuze and Beckett, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and Resisting Biopolitics: Philosophical, Political and Performative Strategies, (Routledge, 2016).

Table of Contents

Introduction: Towards an Organism-Oriented OntologyThe Thinking of the OrganicAutopoietic SystemsOrganism-Oriented OntologyOutline of Chapters

  1. Gilbert Simondon: From Ontology to Ontogenesis Physical Individuation: Transduction Biological Individuation: The Membrane Psychical Individuation: The Transindividual Conclusion
  2. Raymond Ruyer: Organic Consciousness Morphogenesis: Between Preformationism and Finalism Equipotentiality Types of Forms, Types of Consciousnesses Self-Survey without a SelfConclusion
  3. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s Philosophy of Life Individuation as Differentiation The Deconstruction of an Organism The Brain: Between the Mental and the Cerebral Conclusion
  4. Catherine Malabou: Plasticity of Reason Plasticity and Potentiality Damasio: From the Neuronal to the Mental Malabou: Between the Neuronal and the Mental Epigenesis and Reason Conclusion
  5. General Organology: Between Organism and Machine Simondon on Technical Objects Stiegler’s General Organology Hui’s Cosmotechnics Conclusion
  6. Planetary Organism The Gaia Hypothesis Gaia and the Theory of Autopoiesis Gaia and Actor-Network Theory Gaia and the Theory of Sympoiesis Conclusion
  7. Hybrid Organism Sympoiesis as ‘Making-With’ Immunity and Contagion Hybrids and Chimeras Conclusion

Conclusion: Organism-Oriented Ontology

Bibliography Index

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