期刊名称：PLATFORM : Journal of Media and Communication
电子版ISSN：1836-5132
出版年度：2016
卷号：6
期号：1
页码：86-95
出版社：University of Melbourne
摘要：This paper provides two examples of concretization, an important concept in philosophy of technology that canalso be applied to the study of media more broadly construed. It begins with a short summary of the preexistingliterature on concretization, followed by a survey of the uses of concretization in the work of its primary theorist,the French philosopher Gilbert Simondon. The paper proceeds with a brief analysis of a famous example of concretizationoffered by Simondon (the Guimbal turbine) before engaging a new analysis of concretization in thecontext of contemporary information and communication technologies (planar transistors). The argument ismade that Simondon provided an early (and simple) philosophical explanation of concretization, one that isuseful for tracking (analog and digital) technological evolution over time.
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