Rivedere la cibernetica.
Oltre l’analogia organismo-macchina

 di
Francesca Sunseri

 16 maggio – ore 7pm

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This talk analyses the reception of Norbert Wiener’s cybernetics in France with particular attention to the perspective proposed by Gilbert Simondon. The debate that has emerged since the 1950s among the philosophers of the so-called French Theory opens up the possibility of speaking of revised cybernetics on the basis of the need to go beyond the structural analogy between living being and machine. The following research investigates the relationship between Simondon and cybernetics from his 1953 manuscript, his two doctoral theses and his speech at the Royaumont conference in 1962. It also focuses on the concept of ecceità that Simondon uses in order to speak from the qualitative side of information and to propose an ontological perspective in which it is that which goes beyond the limits of Aristotelian hylomorphism. 

Francesca Sunseri is a research fellow in History of Philosophy at the University of Palermo, a member of the Global Philosophy research group and editor for “Epekeina. International Journal of Ontology, History and Critics”. Her research is focused on contemporary French thought and, in particular, on the relationship between the study of technology and that of psychology, starting from the thesis of Gilbert Simondon. She is the author of several articles including: Algoritmi viventi tra Shannon e Simondon («Lo Sguardo», 34 (1), 2022, 205-218), Per una filosofia della natura tecnica in Gilbert Simondon, («Bollettino Filosofico», 38, 2023, 296-306) e “Ciberneretica” simondoniana, («Philosophy Kitchen», 18 (1), 2023, 73-87).

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