French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn

Madeleine Chalmers

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Edinburgh University Press
09 April 2025

Literary theory; Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology

Series: Crosscurrents

French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn traces a genealogy of thinking and writing about technology, which takes us from the French avant-gardes to the contemporary 'nonhuman turn' in Anglo-American theory via the Surrealists, Gilbert Simondon, and Gilles Deleuze.

Tracking the unruly transition from Catholic vocabularies of grace, potentiality, and actuality to the modern and contemporary secular lexicon of agency, virtuality, and affect, this book explores technology as a source of subject matter and conceptual metaphors, but also probes how ideas and words are modes of technicity through which we shape and reshape the world. Fusing literature, philosophy, and theology, it offers readers new contexts

and questions

for the egalitarian ontological commitments of contemporary post- and nonhuman thinking.

By: Madeleine Chalmers
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781399539814
ISBN 10: 1399539817
Series: Crosscurrents
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 09 April 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Madeleine Chalmers is Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Leicester. Her work revives modern French avant-garde writings to engage critically with twenty-first-century questions in the fields of science, technology, and epistemology.

Reviews for French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn

Chalmers' masterful work reads a range of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French writers and thinkers in order to uncover a lineage of technological thought that sheds new light on contemporary non-human theory. Illuminating and insightful, this book is an indispensable contribution to current thinking about technics and the nonhuman turn.--Ian James, University of Cambridge