Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information

Publisher's Note
Foreword: Introduction to the Problematic of Gilbert Simondon by Jacques Garelli
Introduction
PART I: PHYSICAL INDIVIDUATION
	1. Form and Matter
		I. Foundations of the Hylomorphic Schema: Technology of Form-Taking
			1. The Conditions of Individuation
			2. Validity of the Hylomorphic Schema; the Dark Zone of the Hylomorphic Schema; Generalization of the Notion of Form-Taking; Modeling, Molding, Modulation
			3. Limits of the Hylomorphic Schema
		II. Physical Signification of Technical Form-Taking
			1. Physical Conditions of Technical Form-Taking
			2. Qualities and Implicit Physical Forms
			3. Hylomorphic Ambivalence
		III. The Two Aspects of Individuation
			1. Reality and Relativity of the Foundation of Individuation
			2. The Energetic Foundation of Individuation: Individuation and Milieu
	2. Form and Energy
		I. Structures and Potential Energy
			1. The Potential Energy and the Reality of the System; Equivalence of Potential Energies; Dissymmetry and Energetic Exchanges
			2. Different Orders of Potential Energy; Notions of Phase Changes and of the Stable and Metastable Equilibrium of a State. Tammann's Theory
		II. Individuation and System States
			1. Individuation and Crystalline Allotropic Forms; Being and Relation
			2. Individuation as the Genesis of Crystalline Forms Starting from an Amorphous State
			3. Epistemological Consequences: Reality of Relation and the Notion of Substance
	3. Form and Substance
		I. Continuous and Discontinuous
			1. Functional Role of Discontinuity
			2. The Antinomy of the Continuous and the Discontinuous
			3. The Analogical Method
		II. Particle and Energy
			1. Substantialism and Energeticism
			2. The Deductive Process
			3. The Inductive Process
		III. The Non-substantial Individual: Information and Compatibility
			1. Relativistic Conception and the Notion of Physical Individuation
			2. Quantum Theory: Notion of the Elementary Physical Operation That Integrates the Complementary Aspects of the Continuous and the Discontinuous
			3. The Theory of the Double Solution in Wave Mechanics
			4. Topology, Chronology, and Order of Magnitude of Physical Individuation
PART II: THE INDIVIDUATION OF LIVING BEINGS
	1. Information and Ontogenesis: Vital Individuation
		I. Principles toward a Study of the Individuation of the Living-Being
			1. Information and Vital Individuation; Levels of Organization; Vital Activity and Psychical Activity
			2. Successive Levels of Individuation: Vital, Psychical, Transindividual
		II. Specific Form and Living Substance
			1. Insufficiency of the Notion of Specific Form; Notion of the Pure Individual; Non-univocal Nature of the Notion of the Individual
			2. The Individual as Polarity; Functions of Internal Genesis and of External Genesis
			3. Individuation and Reproduction
			4. Undifefrentiation and Dedifferentiation as Conditions of Reproductive Individuality
		III. Information and Vital Individuation
			1. Individuation and Regimes of Information
			2. Regimes of Information and Rapports between Individuals
			3. Individuation, Information, and the Structure of the Individual
		IV. Information and Ontogenesis
			1. Notion of an Ontogenetic Problematic
			2. Individuation and Adaptation
			3. Limits of the Individuation of the Living. Central Characteristic of the Being. Nature of the Collective
			4. From Information to Signification
			5. Topolology and Ontogenesis
	2. Psychical Individuation
		I. Signification and the Individuation of Perceptive Units
			1. Segregation of Perceptive Units; the Genetic Theory and the Theory of Holistic Grasping; Determinism of Good Form
			2. Psychical Tension and Degrees of Metastability. Good Form and Geometrical Form; the Different Types of Equilibrium
			3. Relation between the Segregation of Perceptive Units and the Other Types of Individuation. Metastability and Information Theory in Technology and Psychology
			4. Introduction of the Notion of Quantum Variation into the Representation of Psychical Individuation
			5. The Perceptive Problematic; Quantity of Information, Quality of Information, Intensity of Information
		II. Individuation and Affectivity
			1. Consciousness and Individuation; the Quantum Nature of Consciousness
			2. Signification of Affective Subconsciousness
			3. Affectivity in Communication and Expression
			4. The Transindividual
			5. Anxiety
			6. The Affective Problematic: Affection and Emotion
		III. Psychical Individuation and the Problematic of Ontogenesis
			1. Signification as Criterion of Individuation
			2. The Relation to the Milieu
			3. Individuation, Individualization, and Personalization. Bi-substantialism
			4. Insufficiency of the Notion of Adaptation to Explain Psychical Individuation
			5. The Problematic of Reflexivity in Individuation
			6. The Necessity of Psychical Ontogenesis
	3. Collective Individuation and the Foundations of the Transindividual
		I. The Individual and the Social, Group Individuation
			1. Social Time and Individual Time
			2. Interiority Groups and Exteriority Groups
			3. Social Reality as a System of Relations
			4. Insufficiency of the Notion of the Essence of Man and of Anthropology
			5. Notion of Group Individual
			6. Role of Belief in the Group Individual
			7. Group Individuation and Vital Individuation
			8. Pre-individual Reality and Spiritual Reality: The Phases of Being
		II. The Collective as Condition of Signification
			1. Subjectivity and Signification; the Transindividual Character of Signification
			2. Subject and Individual
			3. The Empirical and the Transcendental. Ontogenesis and Pre-critical Ontology. The Collective as Signification That Overcomes a Disparation
			4. The Central Operational Zone of the Transindividual: Theory of Emotion
	Conclusion