Event overview
A talk by François Laruelle (with live English translation by Marjorie Gracieuse) and response by Robin Mackay (Director Urbanomic)
François Laruelle, Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris-Ouest (Nanterre), is the founder of ‘non-philosophy’ and the author of around twenty works, including Une biographie de l’homme ordinaire (Paris: Aubier, 1985), Principes de la non-philosophie (Paris: PUF, 1996), Le Christ futur. Une leçon d’hérésie (Paris: Exils, 2002; translated by A.P.Smith as The Future Christ (London/NY: Continuum, 2011), Anti-Badiou (forthcoming, Continuum, 2012), Philosophie non-standard (Paris: Kimé, 2010), and The Concept of Non-Photography (published in a bilingual edition by Urbanomic/Sequence in 2011). An introductory collection of his essays is published in English as From Decision to Heresy: Introduction to Non-Philosophy (Falmouth/NY: Urbanomic/Sequence, 2012).
Abstract from the book: Non-photography
If philosophy has always understood itself and its World according to the model of the photograph, then how can there be a “philosophy of photography” that is not viciously self-reflexive? By thinking the photograph “non-philosophically”, Laruelle discovers an essence of photography that precedes its historical, technological and aesthetic conditions. Challenging the customary assumptions made by any “theory of photography” that leaves its own “onto-photo- logical” conditions uninterrogated, and utilizing the concept of a “generalized fractality” to interrogate artistic creation, The Concept of Non-Photography exposes a rigorous new thinking of the photograph in its relation to philosophy, science and art.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 10 May 2012 | 2:00pm - 4:00pm |
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