Organism-Oriented Ontology

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Audronė Žukauskaitė (Chief Researcher, Lithuanian Culture Research Institute)

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Edinburgh University Press
22 November 2023

Philosophy; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; History of ideas

Discussing different aspects of the philosophy of Gilbert Simondon, Raymond Ruyer, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, and including some contemporary thinkers, such as Catherine Malabou, Bernard Stiegler, Bruno Latour, and Donna J. Haraway, Audron ukauskait argues that all these threads can be seen as precursors to organism-oriented ontology.

Rather than concentrating on individuals and identities, contemporary philosophy is increasingly interested in processes, multiplicities and potential for change, that is, in those features that define living beings. ukauskait argues that the capacity of living beings for self-organisation, creativity and contingency can act as an antidote to biopolitical power and control in the times of the Anthropocene.

By: Audronė Žukauskaitė (Chief Researcher Lithuanian Culture Research Institute)
Imprint: Edinburgh University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9781399510547
ISBN 10: 1399510541
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 22 November 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction: Towards an Organism-Oriented OntologyThe Thinking of the OrganicAutopoietic SystemsOrganism-Oriented OntologyOutline of Chapters Gilbert Simondon: From Ontology to Ontogenesis Physical Individuation: Transduction Biological Individuation: The Membrane Psychical Individuation: The Transindividual Conclusion Raymond Ruyer: Organic Consciousness Morphogenesis: Between Preformationism and Finalism Equipotentiality Types of Forms, Types of Consciousnesses Self-Survey without a SelfConclusion Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s Philosophy of Life Individuation as Differentiation The Deconstruction of an Organism The Brain: Between the Mental and the Cerebral Conclusion Catherine Malabou: Plasticity of Reason Plasticity and Potentiality Damasio: From the Neuronal to the Mental Malabou: Between the Neuronal and the Mental Epigenesis and Reason Conclusion General Organology: Between Organism and Machine Simondon on Technical Objects Stiegler’s General Organology Hui’s Cosmotechnics Conclusion Planetary Organism The Gaia Hypothesis Gaia and the Theory of Autopoiesis Gaia and Actor-Network Theory Gaia and the Theory of Sympoiesis Conclusion Hybrid Organism Sympoiesis as ‘Making-With’ Immunity and Contagion Hybrids and Chimeras Conclusion Conclusion: Organism-Oriented Ontology Bibliography Index

Audronė Žukauskaitė is Chief Researcher in the Department of Contemporary Philosophy at the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute. Her publications include From Biopolitics to Biophilosophy (2016, in Lithuanian) and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s Philosophy: The Logic of Multiplicity (2011, in Lithuanian). She co-edited Life in the Posthuman Condition: Critical Responses to the Anthropocene (Edinburgh University Press, 2023), Interrogating Antigone in Postmodern Philosophy and Criticism, (Oxford University Press, 2010), Deleuze and Beckett, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) and Resisting Biopolitics: Philosophical, Political and Performative Strategies, (Routledge, 2016).

Reviews for Organism-Oriented Ontology

"This is an extraordinary book. Zukauskaite has marshaled the resources of a wide range of contemporary thinkers-- Simondon, Ruyer, Canguilhem, Deleuze and Guattari, Malabou, Stiegler, Latour and Haraway--to develop an organism-oriented ontology that is focused not only on the body but, more profoundly, on the multiple processes of individuation that constitute the body. Zukauskaite is charting a path to the philosophy of the future that the rest of us can only follow.-- ""Daniel W. Smith, Purdue University"" This is an original and groundbreaking development in contemporary philosophy of life and biology. By defining a new branch of ontology of life as organism-oriented ontology, Audrone Zukauskaite makes important new steps in respondingto the now classical problem of what form biopolitics should take.-- ""James Williams, Honorary Professor of Philosophy, Deakin University"""