Technicality and Sacredness in Gilbert Simondon

Abstract

This article addresses the problem of the connection between technique and the sacred, basing itself on Gilbert Simondon’s theses on technicality and sacredness, contained essentially in his Courses on Technique, given at Paris V in the 1960s and 1970s. The position of Mircea Eliade, which also serves to understand and correctly situate Simondon’s work, is discussed in parallel. The background of the whole essay is philosophical monism, which is opposed to traditional metaphysical dualism.