This article, drawing on the philosophy of Gilbert Simondon, who turns 100 in 2024, argues that his theory of individuation offers new perspectives for adequately
understanding the anthropological and technosocial implications of the ongoing digital transformations in today's networked society. Individuation theory for the digital world is a conceptualization of natural entities, humans and technical entities, as digital networks, and of the technosocial world as a digital network of networks. We live in the age of digital networks. The world is now rapidly perceived as a vast space of interconnected digital networks of seemingly infinite diversity: biological, productive, cybernetic and, most importantly, social. The image of the digital network, with its obvious bias towards vision, has become a paradigmatic digital representation for understanding our current technological and networked society as a holistic entity that would otherwise elude our cognitive perception. It can now be recognized that Simondon's philosophical research is a rich source for the development of new concepts, theories and practices that allow us to cope
with our contemporary conditions of the new electronic-digital technosocial reality.
For citation: Sayapin V.O. Gilbert Simondon's theory of individuation and its role in understanding digital social networks, Bulletin of Ivanovo State University. Series: Humanities, 2025, no. 2. pp. 155—164.