Imagination Et Invention, 1965 1966 by Gilbert Simondon

A series of lectures analyzing imagination as a transductive operation that mediates sensation, affect, and concept, and invention as an individuating process that proceeds through problem formation, schema construction, and technical concretization. It distinguishes regimes of images—affective, symbolic, analogical, and operational—tracing how they stabilize and transform within individuals and collectives to generate new forms of knowledge and technical objects. Framed by notions of metastability and information, it links creativity to the coupling of psychic and social processes and outlines a pedagogy that fosters innovation by aligning cognitive, ethical, and cultural conditions.

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