2. Simondon as a Neo-Scholastic?

Scaffolding for English as Foreign Language Writers: Writing a Scholastic Essay

This article describes how a group of Iranian upper-intermediate EFL learners were guided through the practice of writing their first academic essays in English. The method applied the principle of scaffolding to the essay writing process by providing flexible support for the learners during the writ- ing their first essays. Scaffolding included a number of aspects, each of which is explained i...

Personhood and Subjectivation in Simondon and Heidegger

Twentieth century philosophers such as Simondon and Heidegger propose theories of subjectivation that inform our thinking about the definition of personhood and how it arises, including in the potentially wide-ranging context of personhood beyond the human. Simondon’s theory of transindividuation unfolds as a series of decenterings that provides a context for future persons that is a dynamic wo...

Simondon, Bioart and the Milieu of Biotechnology

After a half-century of neglect in the English-speaking world, Gilbert Simondon’s philosophy of technology seems finally poised to make its way across the Atlantic. Spurred in part by Gilles Deleuze’s, Félix Guattari’s, and Bernard Stiegler’s engagement with Simondon’s oeuvre, and in part by translations of Simondon’s work that have recently become available (albeit largely still only on the in...

Scholastic and Intelligence Tests.

Chapter 2 Foundations of a Neo - Weberian Class Analysis

Introduction In the broad project of ‘class analysis’ a great deal of effort goes into defining class and delineating the boundaries of classes. This is necessarily so, because class analysis is ‘the empirical investigation of the consequences and corollaries of the existence of a class structure defined ex-ante’ (Breen and Rottman 1995b, p. 453). By starting from a particular definition, socio...