“Perlomeno come una macchina”

Il difficile umanismo etico di Gilbert Simondon

Abstract

According to Gilbert Simondon, nothing that is technical is alien to the human, and in this sense, shunning the cultural myth of a technology hostile to human beings, living beings and Nature, is the first ethical gesture of responsibility that we can take. In fact, acquiring a “technical mentality” does not mean forcing ourselves into a blind utilitarian rationality, but on the contrary, developing the richness of an analogical and operational thought, a synthetic science that Gilbert Simondon sometimes calls “praxeology”, other times “general technology”, “allagmatic”, or “anthropotechnology”. Thus a deep ethical vision emerges, humanist but in the name of a continuity between the human and the other domains, both biological and physical, of reality.