Introduction: Towards an Organism-Oriented Ontology The Thinking of the OrganicAutopoietic SystemsOrganism-Oriented OntologyOutline of Chapters Gilbert Simondon: From Ontology to Ontogenesis Physical Individuation: Transduction Biological Individuation: The Membrane Psychical Individuation: The Transindividual Conclusion Raymond Ruyer: Organic Consciousness Morphogenesis: Between Preformationism and Finalism Equipotentiality Types of Forms, Types of Consciousnesses Self-Survey without a SelfConclusion Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's Philosophy of Life Individuation as Differentiation The Deconstruction of an Organism The Brain: Between the Mental and the Cerebral Conclusion Catherine Malabou: Plasticity of Reason Plasticity and Potentiality Damasio: From the Neuronal to the Mental Malabou: Between the Neuronal and the Mental Epigenesis and Reason Conclusion General Organology: Between Organism and Machine Simondon on Technical Objects Stiegler's General Organology Hui's Cosmotechnics Conclusion Planetary Organism The Gaia Hypothesis Gaia and the Theory of Autopoiesis Gaia and Actor-Network Theory Gaia and the Theory of Sympoiesis Conclusion Hybrid Organism Sympoiesis as 'Making-With' Immunity and Contagion Hybrids and Chimeras Conclusion Conclusion: Organism-Oriented Ontology Bibliography Index.