French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn

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Madeleine Chalmers (Teaching Fellow in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University.)

French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn

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Edinburgh University Press
30 June 2026

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 (Teaching Fellow in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures Durham University.)
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9781399539821
ISBN 10: 1399539825
Series: Crosscurrents
Pages: 248
Publication Date: 30 June 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

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