Volumes of transindividuation: The spaciousness of localities and the urban in Bernard Stiegler

Abstract

The role of transindividuation is one of many key elements
in Stiegler’s thought. It concerns how expectations of a future (protentions) are generated and how collective protentions coalesce in a horizon. Transindividuation, as an individual and collective process of becoming, provides the means by which the local begins to enter into the mix of the global rendered as planet and biosphere. Therein resides a number of processes accelerating and perpetuating the various crises bundled together under the rubric of the Anthropocene: a rubric teeming with metonymic shorthands for the various crises facing humanity and its existence on the earth in the first quarter of
the twenty-first century. In this article, the authors ask what becomes of the urban in light of the acceleration of extant technologies for visualization and calculation—the very organization of locality,
its scales and volumes? In raising this question, we argue that spaciousness becomes not only an ontological concern but also an epistemological and biotechnological one straddling material and noetic localities.

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