{"product_id":"imagination-and-invention-9781517914455","title":"Imagination and Invention","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA radical rethinking of the theory and the experience of mental images\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Here, in English translation for the first time, is Gilbert Simondon's fundamental reconception of the mental image and the theory of imagination and invention. Drawing on a vast range of mid-twentieth-century theoretical resources--from experimental psychology, cybernetics, and ethology to the phenomenological reflections of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty--\u003ci\u003eImagination and Invention\u003c\/i\u003e provides a comprehensive account of the mental image and adds a vital new dimension to the theory of psychical individuation in Simondon's earlier, highly influential work.\u003cp\u003eSimondon traces the development of the mental image through four phases: first a bundle of motor anticipations, the image becomes a cognitive system that mediates the organism's relation to its milieu, then a symbolic and abstract integration of motor and affective experience to, finally, invention, a solution to a problem of life that requires the externalization of the mental image and the creation of a technical object. An image cannot be understood from the perspective of one phase alone, he argues, but only within the trajectory of its progressive metamorphosis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eGilbert Simondon (1924-1989) was a French philosopher of technology whose work continues to attract new interest within a variety of academic fields. His books in English translation include Individuation in \u003ci\u003eLight of Notions of Form and Information, \u003c\/i\u003eVolumes 1 and 2, and \u003ci\u003eOn the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects\u003c\/i\u003e (all from Minnesota).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristophe Wall-Romana is professor and Samuel Russell Chair in the Humanities at the University of Minnesota.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoe Hughes is senior lecturer in English and Theater Studies at the University of Melbourne.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Univocal Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50497278214418,"sku":"9781517914455","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2aa001ca-d5d4-4d52-b99a-6e78c4c6b64f.jpg?v=1730709862","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/imagination-and-invention-9781517914455","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}