DOI: 10.4324/9781003294399-19 Introduction: From the Dramatization of Ideas to the Modulation of Matter There are two major instances where Gilbert Simondon makes an appearance in Deleuz‑ ian thought. In Difference and Repetition, Deleuze uses Simondon’s theory of individua‑ tion to think the movement between two types of multiplicity: a multiplicity of internal difference and a multiple of denumerable spatio‑temporal things. The former is defined as the coexistence of virtual Ideas, the latter as the world of actual beings, organ parts and species. Simondon helps Deleuze to think this asymmetrical genesis from the virtual to the actual: intensive quantity becomes the crucial individuating factor, which Deleuze draws from Simondon’s account of structuring operations in pre‑individual, intensive fields of individuation, modelled on the science of dynamic processes of crystallization. This allows Deleuze to develop a conception of the ‘dramatization’ of Ideas through spatio‑temporal dynamisms that differs in significant ways from the Kantian schematism. As Deleuze remarks in The Logic of Sense, Simondon invented ‘a new conception of the transcendental’ (LS 344, n.3), which provides a key element in Deleuze’s own transcen‑ dental empiricism. The second appearance of Simondon’s thought occurs in Deleuze’s collaborative work with Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus. In the ‘Geology of Morals’ section, Deleuze and Guattari present a hierarchical theory of evolution, understood as comprising basic inor‑ ganic, organic and alloplastic ‘strata.’ This is broadly similar to the way Simondon dis‑ tinguishes the various (physical, biological and psycho‑social) levels of individuation. However, Deleuze and Guattari go beyond Simondon’s account in important ways in discussing the role of genetic coding on the organic stratum, which is a theme Simondon ignores. Furthermore, they also provide a much‑needed analysis of the way technology is tied to regimes of power (the social machine) and symbolic expression to a semiotic col‑ lective machine. The more essential intervention of Simondonian thought arguably occurs in the chapter ‘1227: Treatise on Nomadology – The War Machine,’ in which Deleuze and Guattari pick up Simondon’s theory of individuation again, but this time to focus on the notion of ‘modulation,’ which poses a challenge to the traditional Aristotelian 15 ‘SINGULAR WITHOUT BEING INDIVIDUAL’ Simondon, Deleuze and the Problem of Individuation Daniela Voss