Techno-Ecologies of Bill Viola and Gilbert Simondon: The Birth of Form (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781399554770)

Both Viola and Simondon prioritise a techno-aesthetic experience that reveals a consistent pattern of interdependence between form and matter, nature and culture, human and nonhuman. Inspired by Simondon's ideas on individuation as process, and by other major figures of process philosophy such as Raymond Ruyer, Deleuze and Guattari, and Brian Massumi, Elena del Río delves deep into Viola's art and finds a politics of nature that is also a politics of the affects. In taking full account of the interrelation between collective affects and living milieus, this politics exceeds the still anthropocentric project of a politics reductively focused on environmental degradation.

The book works with a broad concept of ecology that encompasses a nature-culture continuum - from Simondon's associated milieu to Guattari's tripartite ecological praxis, from Deleuze and Guattari's existential territories to Massumi's affective events. Attending to this nature-culture continuum and activating our collective energies are prime strategies in tackling the overwhelming psycho-social and environmental crises we face.

Author: Elena del Río
ISBN-10: 1399554778
ISBN-13: 9781399554770
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2025
Pages: 280
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d