Genealogy of Quasi-object: Prelude for Theory of Digital Object

It is significant to consider objects. From the early enlightenment movement, we began to consider objects on the basis of nature-society dichotomy, from which some singular “quasi-natural” and “quasi-object” generated. Serres and Latour, the contemporary French thinkers, by theory of ANT, constructed quasi-objects composed of acteurs, however Latour neglected the dimension of totality, which led his theory towards contemporary Lebnizism. Simondon, instead, based on individuation and embodiment of objects through an associated milieu, developed the problem of modern technological object. Then Latour and Simondon provide for us an important theoretical foundation from different perspectives, by which, digital objects could be considered not only as a translator in ANT, but individuation in associated milieu, that is, a new model of quasi-object, which finally makes it possible for us to understand digital objects.