This book brings together courses and lectures taught by Gilbert Simondon in the 60 and 70. runs the same problem: communication at different levels of being. This puts this work in proximity to what was his central thesis on individuation.
It is part of a general operating scheme that works everywhere, the "touch Simondon" pantheism rarely explicit, scheme there is "both a religious faith as an electronic tube" outline three elements, unlike theory information working with two. We always have a power input (you call it power or motivation), an input (or perception), and an output action (or effectuation). Communication occurs by "relay" operating amplification, which makes an incidence of weak energy can trigger an event proportions. This principle is both evolution as that of the invention, a kind of "dialectic of life."
The notion of amplifier relay is fundamental. And the individual is relief par excellence, modulator located "between the cosmic order and microphysical order" operator active communication between orders of magnitude, so rather than individual, individuation. The important thing is longer then the individuated being, but the patterns and configurations appearance ( "a fish that once listed as predator and soon as seductive, is not the same fish"). Before being then appearing.
Couple in that classical social theory held fall like playing cards, and especially the dualism that puts the motivation in the individual and social action which binarizes the interior / exterior relationship, agency / medium. With Simondon it is rather a chiasm between exterior and interior, which is not a poetic vision but a dimensional topological hypothesis, which leads to the notion of psychosocial tract.
According to this notion vector, everything is psychosocial, and this means not only that in every social entity, molar, of great stature, we find oddities, molecules, and infinitesimal relationships ( "small shocks before -or behind- the great lightning") but also we found in molecules psychosocial relationships. With this Circulatory notion Simondon is crossed a step towards the world of trends, instincts and intelligence, where the halo one turns on the other (thus, "the instinct is smart on their territory"), and where everything communicates in a multipolar faceted and pluralism.