Radikal verletzliche Letztlichkeit: Paraphrasen zur Philosophie und ihren Opfern We pursue a more rigorous and more „human“ theory than philosophy usually pursues, devoted as it is to the cosmos and to being, to the sciences and to the gods. A […]
François Laruelle: General Theory of Victims
From the Thought of Power to the Unpower of ThoughtFrançois LaruelleFrom Au-delà du principe de pouvoir (Paris: Payot, 1978), p.13-21PDF 1) Multiplying the suspicions concerning the ends of thought, we begin by suspecting that thought is perhaps endless, that all its power
From the Thought of Power to the Unpower of Thought
Democracy of-the-Last-Instance Within the Sciences: General Equivalency and Generic IdempotencyFrançois LaruelleIn Introduction aux sciences génériques (Paris: Éditions Pétra, 2008), p.97-104. 1) Many philosophers love to mock “democracy,” a theme that is either idealist or political [politicien] or popular, those who keep lying
Democracy of-the-Last-Instance Within the Sciences: General Equivalency and Generic Idempotency
14 theses of Alexander Galloway according to Laruelle: 1) The medial principle: the real is communicable, and the communicable is real.2) For the standard model of philosophy, everything that is given is split.3) In non-standard philosophy, the One is a
Keywords for Alexander Galloway’s “Laruelle. Against The Digital”
Marx’s reading of Greek atomism informs his uncompromisingly materialist stance, something we will inspect more closely further on in the chapter. At this point, suffice it to say that the contradiction that underpins Epicurean atomism, according to young Marx, is
Chapter on Dialectics, Materialism, Change: From Epicurus to Marx via Aristotle
The Theses of Machinic Materialism and its Distinction from Dialectical MaterialismFrançois LaruelleSelections from Nietzsche contre Heidegger: thèses pour une politique nietzschéenne (Paris: Payot, 1977), p.122-136. The Theses of Machinic Materialism“Machinic materialism” is “Nietzsche’s” latent philosophy, produced at the same time as the
The Theses of Machinic Materialism and its Distinction from Dialectical Materialism
The Fundamental Questions and Research Programmes for a Study into the NETFrançois LaruelleIn Le nouvel esprit technologique (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2020), p.85-98 This is a table of the main questions towards a critique of Technological Reason: I. EVALUATION OF THE “PHILOSOPHIES
Laruelle, Francois. “Mon Parmenide.” La Decision philosophique 7 (1989): 105-114. On the argument: The One is One because it is One rather than because it is or is Other. Non-Parmenidian Axioms 1. If the One (etc.), the One is the real identity that
A Lesson on Non-PhilosophyFrançois LaruelleIn En tant qu’un: la « non-philosophie » expliquée aux philosophes (Paris: Aubier, 1991), p.177-197. 1. The first task is to clarify the field of non-philosophy: its programme, its limits, its objects. And especially its name. The term “non-philosophy”
Laruelle strives for a non-philosophical or generic machine that combines a philosophy robbed of its sufficiency (without comprehensive transcendentality) with a quantum physics robbed of its mathemathical apparatus (without calculation). The turning out of the non-standard philosophy from the philosophy
Laruelle and generic Science (quant-philosophy)
The Organon of the Force (of) the LawFrançois LaruelleIn Éthique de l’étranger: du crime contre l’humanité (Paris: Kimé, 2000), p.327-338 The Non-Kantian Universalization of EthicsWe reprise the previous problem of the constitution of the Neighbour [Prochain] by transposing the problem into the
The Organon of the Force (of) the Law, from Éthique de l’Étranger (2000)
