JORGE FELIPE HENRY

In the following research, the relationship between Gilbert Simondon’s Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information (ILFI) and the so-called “anthropology of nature” is approached through concepts that are outside philosophy and anthropology. Metastability, dephasing and transduction, field, information, entanglement, non-locality and non-individuality are notions Simondon borrowed from thermodynamics, quantum physics and cybernetics. Following his steps, we will use these concepts to problematize the emergence of a subjacent field from which the living unfolds or, better yet, from which everything unfolds via a process of individuation. The collective phase of this process is transindividuation, a relationship between inchoative, metastable parts that slide off each other through transduction – defined as a dynamic process that constitutes its terms. Transindividuation can be perceived in action in fluid collectives, such as Amerindians, Melanesians and others. What is at stake here is the being of the relationship instead of the being. We will notice that these simondonian concepts are in fact strangely familiar to indigenous non-anthropomorphic, non-anthropocentric, non-anthropological ways of viewing the universe of the living, or the universe tout court. Transindividual collectives that seem to exist like waves of information.