Quotes from Gilbert Simondon

Knowledge is not constructed abstractly on the basis of sensation but problematically on the basis of an initial tropistic and taxic unity, which is the coupling of tropism and sensation, an orientation of the living being in a polarized world.

Aesthetic thinking emerges at the neutral point between technics and religion, at the moment of the division of primitive magical unity: this is not a phase but, rather, a permanent reminder of the rupture of the unity of the magical mode of being and a search for a future unity.