Imagination and Invention

Imagination and Invention
Gilbert Simondon, Joe Hughes, Christophe Wall-Romana
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h216 x 140mm - 248pg
17 Jan 2023 US
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9781517914455
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A radical rethinking of the theory and the experience of mental images Here, in English translation for the first time, is Gilbert Simondon' s fundamental reconception of the mental image and the theory of imagination and invention. Drawing on a vast range of mid-twentieth-century theoretical resources-from experimental psychology, cybernetics, and ethology to the phenomenological reflections of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty-Imagination and Invention provides a comprehensive account of the mental image and adds a vital new dimension to the theory of psychical individuation in Simondon' s earlier, highly influential work. Simondon traces the development of the mental image through four phases: first a bundle of motor anticipations, the image becomes a cognitive system that mediates the organism' s relation to its milieu, then a symbolic and abstract integration of motor and affective experience to, finally, invention, a solution to a problem of life that requires the externalization of the mental image and the creation of a technical object. An image cannot be understood from the perspective of one phase alone, he argues, but only within the trajectory of its progressive metamorphosis.
Gilbert Simondon (1924-1989) was a French philosopher of technology whose work continues to attract new interest within a variety of academic fields. His books in English translation include Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information, Volumes 1 and 2, and On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (all from Minnesota). Christophe Wall-Romana is professor and Samuel Russell Chair in the Humanities at the University of Minnesota. Joe Hughes is senior lecturer in English and Theater Studies at the University of Melbourne.

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