Gilbert Simondon by De Boever Arne

Author:De Boever, Arne.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

CONCLUSION: LIFE AS DIFFERENCE FROM ITSELF OR ‘NON-ESSENCE’

At the end of this rapid examination of types of ‘non-life’ that condition life as biological evolution, then as psycho-social history, we can make a hypothesis regarding the nature of what we have thus named ‘life’: this ‘nature’ of life is perhaps precisely an anti-nature or a ‘non-essence’, because life will be defined as difference from itself if:

1. it is anchored in what is not it (the chemical non-living [being]);

2. it evolves by using death as potentiality inscribed in each cell;

3. it is capable of sublimating itself into a psycho-social life where it fully accomplishes its character of non-essence, since [hu]man, of whom it is said that he is historical and has no ‘nature’, constructs his mind and personality through a process of ‘exteriorization’ in artefacts that paradoxically condition the development of his ‘interiority’.

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