Technische Individuation. Individuationspluralistische Konsequenzen auf Entwurfsprozesse

This article analyses and expands on the concepts of vital, physical, and technological individuation in the work of Gilbert Simondon. In considering those aspects consequences of ways of worldmaking, the text assesses design and technical operations in their relationship to the associated milieus and materials. In this way engaging with the genetic encyclopedism of individuation always entails an investigation into the lineages of technical objects; engaging with technological individuation means to also investigate how technical objects are considered active; and engaging with an individuation of knowledge implicates transductive reasoning. The article argues that the entanglements between technical, scientific, and artistic activities as well as the materials of design situations are to be made more visible. It will further examine in which way an ontological pluralism based in individuation can be combined with concepts from anthropology as well as science and technology studies, in which subject-object relations are already considered in terms of process philosophy and material phenomenology.