{"product_id":"imagination-and-invention-gilbert-simondon-9781517914455","title":"Imagination and Invention","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA radical rethinking of the theory and the experience of mental images\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Here, in English translation for the first time, is Gilbert Simondon's fundamental reconception of the mental image and the theory of imagination and invention. Drawing on a vast range of mid-twentieth-century theoretical resources--from experimental psychology, cybernetics, and ethology to the phenomenological reflections of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty--\u003ci\u003eImagination and Invention\u003c\/i\u003e provides a comprehensive account of the mental image and adds a vital new dimension to the theory of psychical individuation in Simondon's earlier, highly influential work.\u003cp\u003eSimondon traces the development of the mental image through four phases: first a bundle of motor anticipations, the image becomes a cognitive system that mediates the organism's relation to its milieu, then a symbolic and abstract integration of motor and affective experience to, finally, invention, a solution to a problem of life that requires the externalization of the mental image and the creation of a technical object. An image cannot be understood from the perspective of one phase alone, he argues, but only within the trajectory of its progressive metamorphosis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gilbert Simondon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1517914450\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781517914455\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Univocal Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/17\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.62lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.20h x 7.20w x 0.80d","brand":"Gilbert Simondon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44073731162367,"sku":"9781517914455","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cfbd32e8-6eb7-4b31-9d89-5e6ab83089b2.jpg?v=1685449568","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/imagination-and-invention-gilbert-simondon-9781517914455","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}