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Technical Individuation Interest Group

Meeting time: Thursdays (biweekly) 3:30-5:00 pm Central time
Meeting place: online via Zoom

Organized by Megan Moore (Anthropology), Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellow

This reading group draws on work from both the philosophy of technology and political history in order to explore an urgent anthropological question: how do understandings of technical individuation, or how certain philosophies define the relationship between individuals and technology, come to color how we understand the power of 21st century mass surveillance and social media experiments to change human behavior or govern?

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Spring 2021

Please join our mailing list for the zoom invitation or email mcps@umn.edu

  • February 4: Lemmens, P. and Hui, Y.  2017. Reframing the Technosphere: Peter Sloterdijk and Bernard Stiegler’s Anthropotechnological Diagnoses of the Anthropocene Krisis: Journal for Contemporary Philosophy 25-41. (pdf)
  • February 18: Koopman, Colin. 2019. How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person Chicago:University of Chicago Press. Intro & Chapter 1, pp1-65. (pdf)
  • March 4: Koopman, Colin. 2019. How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person Chicago:University of Chicago Press. Chapters 3 and 5.
  • March 18: Simondon, Gilbert. 2017. On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects Minneapolis: Univocal Publishing. Introduction & Chapter 1, pp 15-51. (pdf)
  • April 1: Simondon, Gilbert. 2017. On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects Minneapolis: Univocal Publishing. Part I Ch. 2 & Part II Ch. 1, pp. 53-128.
  • April 15: Simondon, Gilbert. 2017. On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects Minneapolis: Univocal Publishing. Part III, Ch 1, 2, & Conclusion, pp. 173-262.
  • April 29: Hui, Yuk. 2016. On the Existence of Digital Objects Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. Selected chapters pp. 1-74.
  • May 13: Hui, Yuk. 2016. On the Existence of Digital Objects Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. Selected chapters pp. 75-108.
  • May 27: Hui, Yuk. 2016. On the Existence of Digital Objects Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press. Selected chapters pp.109-188.