Animality in Simondonian Individuation

This paper explores Gilbert Simondon's Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information, taking the question of animal-ity as the guiding thread. It analyzes whether in this book there is an anthropological approach that allows us to sharply sepa-rate the individuation of man from that of other animals. The initial hypothesis is that such a conception of anthropogenesis, with the humanist exceptionalism and speciesism that it implies, is incompatible with the system deployed there by Simondon. Throughout the paper, it is highlighted that Simondon's ontolo-gy, with its ambiguities and tensions around this issue, demands to think of another concept of animality than the one he inherits from the philosophical tradition against which he stands.