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I noticed this:
In 1878, Bergson became a French citizen, although he could have chosen English citizenship. He was accepted at the École Normale along with Jean Jaurès and Émile Durkheim. He discovered Herbert Spencer with enthusiasm, and studied under Félix Ravaisson and Jules Lachelier. - https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/bergson/
Bergson is kind of the great-grandpappy of Simondon-style thinking, it would be interesting to use Spencer as a common source (or at least reference point) with Malinowski, per the analysis at The plot thickens (with Herbert Spencer).

The SEP page above also makes this point:
Many philosophers today think that [Bergson's] concept of multiplicity, despite its difficulty, is revolutionary. It is revolutionary because it opens the way to a reconception of community.
 Is it possible that Bergson's idea of multiplicity is a cousin of Malinowski's idea of phatic communion?  Something to follow up on at some point.

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  1. aridedJanuary 12, 2017 at 12:04 AM

    «In phenomenology, the multiplicity of phenomena is always related to a unified consciousness. In Bergsonism, “the immediate data of consciousness” (les données immédiates de la conscience) are a multiplicity.»

    An interesting quote in connection with *communication* theories.

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  2. aridedJanuary 13, 2017 at 12:08 AM

    Another remark:

    «According to Bergson, [...] conscious representation results from the suppression of what has no interest for bodily functions and the conservation only of what does interest bodily functions.»

    That seems like the essential idea in von Uexküll.

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