Educational Studies in the Light of the Feminine

3Women: Lines of Research in Development

3.1. Analyzing the movement

3.1.1. A vision of development

3.1.1.1. Exhibition

Simondon’s thinking guarantees the exit from dualism (human vs. environment, nature vs. culture, politics vs. technique, psychology vs. sociology). Through his understanding of technology (tools, procedures, administrative frameworks), he invites us to understand it, to re-signify it and to free it from the closed world of the material, thanks to the efforts of archaeology, of genetic questioning, on the grounds on which it was founded.

Simondon should be put into context to better understand his contribution. Alongside his major books (1989 and 2012) is Cahiers Simondon, guided by Hugues Barthélémy. There are also some useful commentaries on and re-readings of Simondon’s work. The documentary Simondon du désert (Lagarde and Chabot 2013) gives a true picture of the vitality of this complex and underground thinking and allows us to grasp its major axes:

• – the centrality of work environments and techniques;
• – the topicality and diversity of applications and translations (in history, art, psychology, information–communication) of Simondonian thought;
• – the arduous approach to its concepts and their potential for proliferation (pre-individual, energy, individuation, transduction);
• – the originality of its epistemology;
• – its non-Marxist thought of alienation;
• – its masterful lesson of human responsibility with regard to technology.

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