L’evoluzione tecnica metafora o analogia. L’eredità di Darwin in Gilbert Simondon

Abstract

The idea that even technical objects are subject to evolution comes to the attention of the scientific world as an effect of the approach developed in Charles Darwin's 1859 work The Origin of the Species. In it, as is known, the selection techniques (agriculture and breeding) used in the English countryside had inspired the naturalist in the formulation of evolutionary theory;1 as models of transformation oriented starting from spontaneously present variations, these techniques are proved capable of evoking the possibility of similar dynamics present in nature.