On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (Univocal)

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Machine Generated Contents Note: On The Mode Of Existence Of Technical Objects -- Introduction -- Pt. I Genesis And Evolution Of Technical Objects -- Ch. One Genesis Of The Technical Object: The Process Of Concretization -- I. The Abstract Technical Object And The Concrete Technical Object -- Ii. Conditions Of Technical Evolution -- Iii. The Rhythm Of Technical Progress; Continuous And Minor Improvements; Discontinuous And Major Improvements -- Iv. Absolute Origins Of The Technical Lineage -- Ch. Two Evolution Of Technical Reality; Element, Individual, Ensemble I. Hypertely And Self-conditioning In Technical Evolution -- Ii. Technical Invention: Ground And Form In The Living And In Inventive Thought -- Iii. Technical Individualization -- Iv. Evolutionary Succession And Preservation Of Technicity. Law Of Relaxation -- V. Technicity And Evolution Of Technics: Technicity As Instrument Of Technical Evolution -- Illustrations -- Pt. Ii Man And The Technical Object -- Ch. One The Two Fundamental Modes Of Relation Between Man And The Technical Given -- I. Social Majority And Minority Of Technics -- Ii. Technics Learned By The Child And Technics Thought By The Adult -- Iii. The Common Nature Of Minor Technics And Major Technics. The Signification Of Encyclopedism -- Iv. Necessity Of A Synthesis Between The Major And Minor Modes Of Access To Technics In The Domain Of Education -- Ch. Two The Regulative Function Of Culture In The Relation Between Man And The World Of Technical Objects. Current Problems -- I. The Different Modalities Of The Notion Of Progress -- Ii. Critique Of The Relation Between Man And The Technical Object As It Is Presented By The Notion Of Progress Arising From Thermodynamics And Energetics. Recourse To Information Theory -- Iii. Limits Of The Technological Notion Of Information In Order To Account For The Relation Between Man And The Technical Object. The Margin Of Indeterminacy In Technical Individuals. Automatism -- Iv. Philosophical Thought Must Carry Out The Integration Of Technical Reality Into Universal Culture, By Founding A Technology -- Pt. Iii The Essence Of Technicity -- Ch. One The Genesis Of Technicity -- I. The Notion Of A Phase Applied To Coming-into-being: Technicity As A Phase -- Ii. The Phase-shift From The Primitive Magical Unity -- Iii. The Divergence Of Technical Thought And Of Religious Thought -- Ch. Two Relations Between Technical Thought And Other Species Of Thought -- I. Technical Thought And Aesthetic Thought -- Ii. Technical Thought, Theoretical Thought, Practical Thought -- Ch. Three Technical And Philosophical Thought. Gilbert Simondon ; Translated By Cécile Malaspina And John Rogove. Includes Bibliographical References (page 269-271).