2021/09/28 by Fernanda Bruno, Pablo Manolo Rodríguez · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · #Cybernetics and Technology in Society #Digital Media and Philosophy #Philosophical and Theoretical Analysis
paper · doi:10.1177/02632764211029356
openalex publication_date 2021/09/28 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
This article revisits the concept of the dividual, taking as a starting point Deleuze’s diagnosis about the relevance that dividual practices have gained with the advent of biotechnology and digital culture. Although we agree with this diagnosis, we highlight the intersections between the dividual and the individual both in Modernity and in the present time. The contemporary dividual is in tension with the modern individual, but not as a substitution, division or duplication of the individual. Rather, we state a complex dividual-individual composition, focusing on biotechnologies, digital culture and financial capitalism. Following a Foucauldian approach, we understand this composition as a result of technologies of power and the result of certain modes of subjectivation. In dialogue with Simondon’s theory of individuation, we suggest that the dividual takes part in a new mode of subjectivation which can be named a ‘dividuation’ in the context of technologically mediated experiences.