Abstract

We propose to situate ourselves in the construction of the pre-individual, elaborated by Simondon in order to forge a new concept of individuation. This term remains explicitly equivocal between a conceptual and a hypothetical or operational status, which in a sense leaves it open to a very rich interpretative posterity. Towards the end of the 1960s, Gilles Deleuze, one of Simondon’s first readers, forges a true conceptual creation by forging the term "pre-individual singularities", which not only clarifies the determinations of Simondon’s proposal, but also transforms and extends it to the point of conferring it a decisive conceptual status. We will try to show that this concept becomes a royal road to show the complexities of the term in Simondonian thought, as well as an exceptional way to broaden its nature and dynamise its operation based on the pluralisation of the singularities that compose it.

Keywords:
Simondon; Deleuze; Preindividual; Singularity; Concept; Difference