For Gilbert Simondon, the human/machine distinction is perhaps not a simple dichotomy and there is much to learn from technical objects. He takes up the task of a true thinker who sees the potential for humanity to uncover life-affirming modes of technical objects whereby we can discover potentiality for novel, healthful, and dis-alienating rapports with them.

Introduction pt. I -- Genesis and Evolution of Technical Objects ch. One -- Genesis of the technical object: the process of concretization I -- The abstract technical object and the concrete technical object II -- Conditions of technical evolution III -- The rhythm of technical progress; continuous and minor improvements; discontinuous and major improvements IV -- Absolute origins of the technical lineage ch. Two -- Evolution of technical reality; element, individual, ensemble I. Hypertely and self-conditioning in technical evolution II -- Technical invention: ground and form in the living and in inventive thought III -- Technical individualization IV -- Evolutionary succession and preservation of technicity. Law of relaxation V -- Technicity and evolution of technics: technicity as instrument of technical evolution -- Illustrations pt. II -- Man and the Technical Object ch. One -- The two fundamental modes of relation between man and the technical given I -- Social majority and minority of technics II -- Technics learned by the child and technics thought by the adult III -- The common nature of minor technics and major technics. The signification of encyclopedism IV -- Necessity of a synthesis between the major and minor modes of access to technics in the domain of education ch. Two -- The regulative function of culture in the relation between man and the world of technical objects. Current problems I -- The different modalities of the notion of progress II -- Critique of the relation between man and the technical object as it is presented by the notion of progress arising from thermodynamics and energetics. Recourse to Information Theory III -- Limits of the technological notion of information in order to account for the relation between man and the technical object. The margin of indeterminacy in technical individuals. Automatism IV -- Philosophical thought must carry out the integration of technical reality into universal culture, by founding a technology pt. III -- The Essence of Technicity ch. One -- The genesis of technicity I -- The notion of a phase applied to coming-into-being: technicity as a phase II -- The phase-shift from the primitive magical unity III -- The divergence of technical thought and of religious thought ch. Two -- Relations between technical thought and other species of thought I -- Technical thought and aesthetic thought II -- Technical thought, theoretical thought, practical thought ch. Three -- Technical and philosophical thought.