This book offers an epistemological critique of the concept of the individual and of
individuality. It argues that because of our bio(techno)logical entanglements with non-human
others billions of microorganisms and our multiple (in)voluntary participations in
socio(techno)logical processes we have to conceive of ourselves no longer as individuals but
as dividuations. This dividual character which enforces simultaneous and multidirectional
participations in different spheres is also apt for other living beings for entities such as
the nation state for single cultures production processes and works of art. The critique of
individuality in the book is also elaborated in critical re-readings of classical philosophical
texts from Plato up to today the new concept of dividuation is a modified and semantically
enriched version of certain concepts of the French philosophers Gilbert Simondon and Gilles
Deleuze.
