Techno-Ecologies of Bill Viola and Gilbert Simondon
The Birth of Form
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 30 November 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781399554770
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages280 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 17 colour illustrations and 2 black and white illustrations 700
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Short description:
Jointly explores Bill Viola’s video art and Gilbert Simondon’s philosophy of individuation through their shared understanding of the interpenetration of nature and technology.
MoreLong description:
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.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Bill Viola with Gilbert Simondon
Part I: Nature’s Gestures
1. Aesthetic Gestures in the Animal-/Nature-Continuum
2. Artful Politics of Nature
Intermezzo: Video and the Digital Convergence
Part II: More-than-Human Ecologies
3. Affective Ecologies, a People to Come
4. Electronic Water, Figures of Submersion
5. Disaster Ecologies, Collective Individuation
6. Mental Ecologies, Transversal Cinema
Coda: A Journey backwards is a Journey forward
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