Introduction: Allagmatics and Invention in the Light of Simondon’s Individuation

This special issue of Substance, “Individuation in the Light of Simondon,” marks the arrival of the English translation of Gilbert Simondon’s Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information (2020). To say the translation has been long-awaited is something of an understatement. Nevertheless, it is a major event in the Anglophone reception of Simondon’s work and should do much to cement his position as a key reference point in the intellectual history of 20^th-century French philosophy. It is sure to have a decisive impact on contemporary debates in philosophy, literary, and cultural studies, especially concerning the ethics and philosophy of technology, the philosophy of biology and science, and studies in identity, subjectivity, interdisciplinarity, and aesthetics.