Issue #109 Towards Black Individuation and a Calculus of Variations

Towards Black Individuation and a Calculus of Variations

Ramon Amaro and Murad Khan

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Issue #109
May 2020










Notes
1

Gilbert Simondon, On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects, trans. Cecile Malaspina and John Rogove (Univocal, 2017), 150.

2

Gilbert Simondon, quoted in Daniela Voss, “Simondon On the Notion of the Problem: A Genetic Schema of Individuation,” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 23, no. 2 (April 2018): 105.

3

Frantz Fanon, “The Negro and Language” in Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Charles Lam Markmann (Pluto Press, 2008), 8–27.

4

Sylvia Wynter, Human Being as Noun? Or Being Human as Praxis? Towards the Autopoetic Turn/Overturn: A Manifesto (Duke University Press, 2015).

5

Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Charles Lam Markmann (Pluto Press, 2008), 8.

6

Felix Guattari, Chaosmosis: An Ethico-Aesthetic Paradigm, trans. Paul Bains and Julian Pefanis (Indiana University Press, 1995), 25.

7

Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Charles Lam Markmann (Pluto, 2017), xvii.

8

Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, 4.

9

Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism, trans. Joan Pinkham (Monthly Review Press, 2000), 73.

10

Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, 158.

11

Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, 79.

12

Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, 82.

13

Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, 82.

14

Gilbert Simondon, quoted in Andrea Bardin, Epistemology and Political Philosophy in Gilbert Simondon: Individuation, Technics, Social Systems (Springer, 2019), 135.

15

Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, 4.

16

Gilbert Simondon, “The Genesis of the Individual,” in Zone 6: Incorporations, eds. Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter (Zone Books, 1992), 302.

17

Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, 5.

18

Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, 2.

19

David Scott, Gilbert Simondon’s Psychic and Collective Individuation: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), 29.

20

Scott, Gilbert Simondon’s Psychic and Collective Individuation, 194.

21

Muriel Combes, Gilbert Simondon and the Philosophy of the Transindividual, trans. Thomas LaMarre (MIT Press, 2013), 3.

22

Quoted in Scott, Gilbert Simondon’s Psychic and Collective Individuation, 7.

23

Quoted in Andrea Bardin, Epistemology and Political Philosophy in Gilbert Simondon: Individuation, Technics, Social Systems (Springer, 2019), 135.

24

Bardin, Epistemology and Political Philosophy in Gilbert Simondon, 137.

25

Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, 82.

26

The title of this section is borrowed from W. E. B Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk (Oxford University Press, 2007), 8.

27

David Scott, Gilbert Simondon’s Psychic and Collective Individuation: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), 153.

28

Gilbert Simondon, “The Limits of Human Progress: A Critical Study,” Cultural Politics 6, no. 2 (2010): 233.

29

Scott, Gilbert Simondon’s Psychic and Collective Individuation, 154.

30

Ibid.

31

Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, 175.

32

Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, 84.

33

See Adrian Mackenzie, Transductions: Bodies and Machines at Speed (Continuum, 2002), 25.

34

Gilbert Simondon, “The Genesis of the Individual” in Zone 6: Incorporations eds. Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter (Zone Books, 1992), 315.

35

See Yuk Hui, “The Notion of Information in Simondon,” Digital Milieu (blog), September 20, 2011 .

36

David Scott, Gilbert Simondon’s Psychic and Collective Individuation: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), 5–6.

37

Gilbert Simondon, quoted in Daniela Voss, “Simondon On the Notion of the Problem: A Genetic Schema of Individuation,” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 23, no. 2 (April 2018): 100.

38

David Scott, Gilbert Simondon’s Psychic and Collective Individuation: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), 113.

39

Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, 84.

40

Simondon, quoted in Simon Mills, Gilbert Simondon: Information, Technology and Media (Rowman & Littefield, 2016), 95.

41

Scott, Gilbert Simondon’s Psychic and Collective Individuation, 155.

42

See Markos Zafiropoulos, Lacan and Lévi-Strauss or the Return to Freud (1951–1957), trans. John Holland (Karnac, 2010).

43

Daniela Voss, “Simondon On the Notion of the Problem: A Genetic Schema of Individuation,” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 23, no. 2 (April 2018): 94.

44

Gilbert Simondon, L’individu et sa genèse physico-biologique (Individuation and its Physico-Biological Genesis), trans. Taylor Adkins (Presses Universitaires de France, 1964), 263.

45

Simondon, quoted in Simon Mills, Gilbert Simondon: Information, Technology and Media (Rowman & Littefield, 2016), 92.

46

Simondon, quoted in Mills, Gilbert Simondon, 92.

47

Simondon, quoted in Andrea Bardin, Epistemology and Political Philosophy in Gilbert Simondon: Individuation, Technics, Social Systems (Springer, 2019), 150.

48

Bardin, Epistemology and Political Philosophy in Gilbert Simondon, 150.

49

Bardin, Epistemology and Political Philosophy in Gilbert Simondon, 151.

50

Sylvia Wynter, “The Re-Enchantment of Humanism: An Interview with Sylvia Wynter,” Small Axe, no. 8 (2000), 184.

51

David Marriott, “The Racialized Body,” in The Cambridge Companion to the Body in Literature, eds. David Hillman and Ulrika Maude (Cambridge University Press, 2015), 116.

52

Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks, 179.

53

Alberto Toscano, The Theatre of Production: Philosophy and Individuation Between Kant and Deleuze (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), 151.

54

Simon Mills, Gilbert Simondon: Information, Technology and Media (Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), 208.

55

Quoted in Scott, Gilbert Simondon’s Psychic and Collective Individuation, 115.

56

Quoted in Scott, Gilbert Simondon’s Psychic and Collective Individuation, 115.

57

David Marriott, Whither Fanon?: Studies in the Blackness of Being (Stanford University Press, 2018), 246.

58

David Scott, Gilbert Simondon’s Psychic and Collective Individuation: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), 39.

59

Simondon, quoted in Andrea Bardin, Epistemology and Political Philosophy in Gilbert Simondon: Individuation, Technics, Social Systems (Springer, 2019), 139.

60

Bardin, Epistemology and Political Philosophy in Gilbert Simondon, 238.

61

David Marriott, Whither Fanon?: Studies in the Blackness of Being (Stanford University Press, 2018), 247.

62

Simondon, On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects, trans. Cecile Malaspina and John Rogove (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), 32.

63

Simondon, On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects, trans. Cecile Malaspina and John Rogove (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), 109.

64

Bernard Stiegler, Acting Out, trans. David Barison, Daniel Ross, and Patrick Crogan (Stanford University Press, 2009), 6.