{"product_id":"imagination-invention","title":"Imagination \u0026 Invention","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA radical rethinking of the theory and the experience of mental images\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\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","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57393397498238,"sku":"NW9781517914455","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781517914455.jpg?v=1778653467","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-eu\/products\/imagination-invention","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}