Inkoation Research: Innovation, Knowledge, Research
Inkoation Research · Stockholm
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The arc · artificial immanence · 2010–2026
Not what machinesare for. How theycome to be.
Western metaphysics long denied artefacts a mode of existence of their own. Artificial immanence starts from the other side: machines are individuating beings, with norms and tendencies of their own, and these should inform how they are designed and governed.
- 2010–2021 · MachinesHumanoid robots in France and Japan, and the communicational being of machines. The doctoral thesis (Université Paris Cité, 2021) moves the focus from the use value of technical objects to their modes of operation, after Simondon.
- 2022–2025 · In episodesA history of artificial beings: from the dungeons of ontology in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, through the Enlightenments and the age of machines, to modernity.
- 2025 · OperationFalse Prophets and ‘Gods Among Us’ reads technical objects at four levels (element, individual, ensemble, network): an operational ontogenesis of artificial immanence.
- 2025 · DesignThe Ecology of the Artificial turns the ontology into a design question: inchoative design, and an index read as a heuristic between symbiosis and coercion, worked through on steel, ammonia, cement and plastics.
- 2026 · GovernanceThe inchoative failure of climate governance: artificial immanence and the ontological challenge of the post-COP30 Amazon (Novos Cadernos NAEA).
I · the column
Innovation
The business side: proposal engineering for collaborative research, two formats you can commission, and a dated watch on Horizon Europe.
K · the book
Knowledge
What has been written and read: 35 items since 2010, shelved by line of work, and marginalia on the literature the work stands on.
R · the lighthouse
Research
How beginnings become infrastructure: one question followed from the being of machines to artificial immanence, inchoative design, climate governance and the formation of competences.
- Six strandsMachines, artificial immanence, inchoative design, climate, gender, competences.Why
- Four methodsNarrative circles, Science-Meets-Politics, the Bootcamp, and the family that binds them.How
- BranchesEvery line of work, back to where it branched.2010–2026
- NowUnder evaluation, just published, in writing.Sept 2026
The company
Pause.Return.Begin again.
Inkoation Research Sweden AB is a Stockholm research company. It studies how beginnings become infrastructure, and how to reopen them: how competences, professions and institutions start to take form, and what it takes to go back to the branching point and begin again.
It works in three spaces. Innovation is the commissioned work: proposal engineering, formats, a watch on Horizon Europe. Knowledge is the library the company builds on. Research is the programme under way. The company was founded by Dr Ludovic Garattini, PhD, and works in English, French and Italian, with working Swedish.
