Edinburgh Companion to Gilbert Simondon

The Edinburgh Companion to Gilbert Simondon is the most exhaustive introduction to the author's oeuvre and philosophy. It covers all the different areas of Simondon's work, displaying its internal coherence and innovative potential in a variety of research fields. The complexity of Simondon's philosophical enterprise is rigorously interpreted and made available to researchers that are keen to cross disciplinary boundaries and explore new appropriations of his research. Structured in four distinct sections, the volume hosts a collection of essays penned by scholars who have been working on and through Simondon for several years across different disciplines, including philosophy, psychology, politics, law, media, architecture, economy, and ecology. Topics covered range across individuation, technology, imagination, the transindividual, metastability and more.

Andrea Bardin is Professor of Political Philosophy in the Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies at the University of Padua. He works on the relationship between science and political thought, and political anthropology from early modernity to the present. He has written extensively on Gilbert Simondon and Thomas Hobbes, and is the author of Epistemology and Political Philosophy in Gilbert Simondon: Individuation, Technics, Social Systems (Springer, 2015) and Hobbes’s Materialist Agenda: The Politics of Early Modern Science (Edinburgh University Press, 2026). Marco Ferrari is Lecturer in Political Philosophy in the Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology at the University of Padua. His research focuses on the history of human, social, and political sciences, examined from a historical-epistemological perspective. He has written extensively on psychoanalysis and cybernetics and has translated works by notable authors such as Jean-Claude Milner, Philip Mirowski, and Gilbert Simondon into Italian. Additionally, he has edited the Italian editions of Norbert Wiener’s Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine (Orthotes, forthcoming) and Alain Badiou’s works, L’être et l’événement and Logiques des mondes (Mimesis, 2018 and 2019) with Pierpaolo Cesaroni and Giovanni Minozzi. His most recent publications include Cibernetica e filosofia politica. Storia e critica di un ostacolo epistemologico (Orthotes, 2024), Filosofia, psicoanalisi, politica. Un laboratorio (Padova University Press, 2024) with Pierpaolo Cesaroni and Lorenzo Rustighi, and Leggere...o peggio. Il Seminario XIX di Jacques Lacan (Galaad, 2023). Anaïs Nony is Senior Researcher at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study where she leads the 'AI & Life Matters' research stream and Associate Researcher at the Institut de Recherche et d'Innovation in Paris. She studied theatre at the Sorbonne-Nouvelle and philosophy at the University of Minnesota, where she wrote her doctoral thesis under the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler. Her book Performative Images: A Philosophy of Video Art Technology in France (Amsterdam University Press, 2023) shows how digital media technologies are dramatically shaping our aesthetic, political and epistemological landscapes. Her essays have appeared in the journals Philosophy Today, Cultural Critique, Parallax, The Moving Image, La Deleuziana, Intermediality: History and Theory of the Arts and Trópos: Journal of Hermeneutics and Philosophical Criticism, as well as in numerous edited collections. Since 2014, she is an editorial board member of the journal La Deleuziana. Gregorio Tenti is Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona. His research interests include environmental aesthetics, philosophy of nature, and the history of modern German philosophy. His current project investigates how the eco-politics of extinction intertwines with language and writing. He is the author of Estetica e morfologia in Gilbert Simondon (Mimesis, 2020) and L’estetica di Friedrich Schleiermacher (ETS, 2023).