Considerations on New Materialist and Posthuman Agendas in Biographical Studies

Following new materialist and posthuman agendas, this article deals with the concept of individuation (Gilbert Simondon, Gilles Deleuze) as a methodological resource for biographical studies and historical scholarship at large. It maps premises for the non-anthropocentric scrutiny of and reflection on individual human activities and focuses on the unexpectedness which is constituted in the material interactions and entanglements of everyday life.