Gilbert Simondon and the Imaginal Dimension of Technical Objects: Towards an Inventive Phenomenology

Resumo

This article proposes to outline the inventive structure of phenomenology through a reinterpretation of Gilbert Simondon’s philosophy, particularly drawing on Simondon’s lecture series Imagination and Invention and integrating perspectives from Mikel Dufrenne and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. After contextualizing the present operation, the first section explores invention as a relational process between the organism and its associated milieu, emphasizing its ontogenetic and symbolic grounding. The second reconstructs the same ontogenetic features of images in Imagination and Invention, showing how they function as quasi-organic mediators between perception, action, and memory, as well as between subjects and the world. The third section examines the imaginal overabundance of being in technical objects, demonstrating how technicity and sacrality must be understood isomorphically. The final section proposes a reevaluation of phenomenology as an inventive, embodied, and symbolic gesture grounded technically and aesthetically in experience. In doing so, the paper aims to reconceive the phenomenological gesture as a dynamic and inventive response to the transformations brought about by technical innovation.

Keywords: imaginary, technical object, phenomenology, invention, gesture.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21747/21836892/fil42a6