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It is also partly Marxist- how much of philosophy can be transformed through practice, how much of it can be withdrawn from its \"ideological\" use? And finally, it is also partly Wittgensteinian- how can one limit philosophical language through its proper use?\u003cbr\u003e This introductory collection of writings by creative and subversive thinker Fran ois Laruelle opens with an introduction based upon an in-depth interview that traces the abiding concerns of his prolific output. The eleven newly translated essays that follow, dating from 1985 to the present, range from the origins of \"non-philosophy\" to its evolution into what Laruelle now calls \"non-standard philosophy.\" Two appendices present a number of Laruelle's experimental texts, which have not previously appeared in English translation, and a transcript of an early intervention and discussion on his \"transvaluation\" of Kant's transcendental method.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49729506214161,"sku":"NGR9780983216902","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50592488915217,"sku":"CIN0983216908VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53395423822097,"sku":"GOR010270242","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0983216908.jpg?v=1750851449"},{"product_id":"photo-fiction-a-non-standard-aesthetics-book-franois-laruelle-9781937561116","title":"Photo-Fiction, a Non-Standard Aesthetics","description":"Twenty years after cultivating a new orientation for aesthetics via the concept of non-photography, FranÇois Laruelle returns, having further developed his notion of a non-standard aesthetics. Published for the first time in a bilingual edition, Photo-Fiction, a Non-Standard Aesthetics expounds on Laruelle’s current explorations into a photographic thinking as an alternative to the worn-out notions of aesthetics based on an assumed domination of philosophy over art. He proposes a new philosophical photo-fictional apparatus, or philo-fiction, that strives for a discursive mimesis of the photographic apparatus and the flash of the Real entailed in its process of image making. “A bit like if an artisan, to use a Socratic example, instead of making a camera based off of diagrams found in manuals, on the contrary had as his or her project the designing of a completely new apparatus of philo-fiction, thus capable of producing not simply photos, but photo-fictions.” One must enter into a space for seeing the vectorial and the imaginary number. Laruelle’s philo-fictions become not art installations, but “theoretical installations” calling for the consideration of the possibility of a non-standard aesthetics being of an equal or superior power to art and philosophy, an aesthetics in-the-last-instance that is itself an inventive and creative act of the most contemporary kind.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49735302021393,"sku":"NGR9781937561116","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1937561119.jpg?v=1764845842"},{"product_id":"concept-of-non-photography-book-francois-laruelle-9780983216919","title":"The Concept of Non-Photography","description":"\u003cb\u003eA rigorous new thinking of the photograph in its relation to science, philosophy, and art, so as to discover an essence of photography that precedes its historical, technological, and aesthetic conditions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf philosophy has always understood its relation to the world according to the model of the instantaneous flash of a photographic shot, how can there be a philosophy of photography that is not viciously self-reflexive?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChallenging the assumptions made by any theory of photography that leaves its own onto-photo-logical conditions uninterrogated, Laruelle thinks the photograph non-philosophically, so as to discover an essence of photography that precedes its historical, technological and aesthetic conditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Concept of Non-Photography develops a rigorous new thinking of the photograph in its relation to science, philosophy, and art, and introduces the reader to all of the key concepts of Laruelle's non-philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49934949548305,"sku":"CIN0983216916G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50593216495889,"sku":"GOR005942437","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50763664621841,"sku":"CIN0983216916VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0983216916.jpg?v=1751397155"},{"product_id":"struggle-and-utopia-at-the-end-times-of-philosophy-book-franois-laruelle-9781937561055","title":"Struggle and Utopia at the End Times of Philosophy","description":"Very few thinkers have traveled the heretical path that FranÇois Laruelle walks between philosophy and non-philosophy. For Laruelle, the future of philosophy is problematic, but a mutation of its functions is possible. Up until now, philosophy has merely been a utopia concerned with the past and only provided the services of its conservation. We must introduce a rigorous and nonimaginary practice of a utopia in action, a philo-fiction-a close relative to science fiction. From here we can see the double meaning of the watchword, a tabula rasa of the future. This new destination is imposed by a specifically human messianism, an eschatology within the limits of the Man-in-person as antihumanist ultimatum addressed to the History of Philosophy. This book elucidates some of the fundamental problems of non-philosophy and takes on its detractors.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50097130635537,"sku":"CIN1937561054VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1937561054.jpg?v=1764843659"},{"product_id":"theory-of-strangers-book-jeremy-r-smith-9781399549233","title":"Theory of Strangers","description":"Originally published in 1995, this book constitutes a turning point in the development of what François Laruelle calls non-philosophy, towards its democratic and emancipatory vision. In this work, Laruelle utilises his non-philosophical theory to develop unified theoretical analyses into philosophy’s relationship with the humanities, politics and psychoanalysis.  Centred on the figure of the Stranger, he argues for a democratic reformation of thought governed by human multitudes. The new field of thought is opened by this Universal Humanity, identified with three different pathways: a science of people and non-humanism, democracy and non-politics, and non-psychoanalysis as the development of a Universal Unconscious.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51631081357585,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51631081455889,"sku":"NGR9781399549233","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53360646291729,"sku":"NIN9781399549233","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1399549235.jpg?v=1770894189"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-franois-laruelle.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}