naa a22 4500 510724019 CHVBK 20180411082928.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s13347-012-0092-5 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s13347-012-0092-5 The Ontological Force of Technicity: Reading Cassirer and Simondon Diffractively [Elektronische Daten] [Aud Hoel, Iris van der Tuin] This article contributes to contemporary philosophy of technology by carrying out a diffractive reading of Ernst Cassirer's "Form und Technik” (1930) and Gilbert Simondon's Du mode d'existence des objets techniques (1958). Both thinkers, who are here brought together for the first time, stood on the brink of the defining bifurcations of twentieth-century philosophy. However, in their endeavor to come to grips with the "being” of technology, Cassirer and Simondon, each in their own way, were prompted to develop an ontology of emergence that gives ontological priority to "technicity,” that is, to technology considered in its efficacy or operative functioning. By reading Cassirer's and Simondon's insights through one another, we aim to further develop this ontology of emergence, and, simultaneously, to demonstrate the relevance of these thinkers for present-day theorizing. As we hope to show, the insistence on the ontological force of technological apparatuses transverses received philosophical and ontological divides and revitalizes the notions of "nature” and "the human,” which are now understood as coevolving with technology. The Author(s), 2012 Philosophy of technology nationallicence Onto-epistemology nationallicence Technological in(ter)vention nationallicence Performative correspondence nationallicence Facile humanism nationallicence Positive difference nationallicence Hoel Aud Department of Art and Media Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491, Trondheim, Norway aut van der Tuin Iris Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, Muntstraat 2a, 3512 EV, Utrecht, The Netherlands aut Philosophy & Technology Springer Netherlands 26/2(2013-06-01), 187-202 2210-5433 26:2<187 2013 26 13347 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-012-0092-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-012-0092-5 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hoel Aud Department of Art and Media Studies, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491, Trondheim, Norway aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- van der Tuin Iris Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, Muntstraat 2a, 3512 EV, Utrecht, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Philosophy & Technology Springer Netherlands 26/2(2013-06-01), 187-202 2210-5433 26:2<187 2013 26 13347 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer