What Is To Be Done With Philosophy?François LaruelleIn Tétralogos: un opéra de philosophies (Paris: Cerf, 2018), p.46-54. How does philosophy intend to save itself if it is no longer to conserve itself under the form of traditions that are sometimes denounced as […]
“What Is To Be Done With Philosophy?” from Tétralogos (2018)
Let us assume difference as absolutely indifferent to Being, even indifferent to this indifference par excellence which is Being: is this a skeptical principle of non-knowledge or rather the positive principle of an a-logical knowledge, of a gnosis before the
“On the Determination in the Last Instance,” from Le principe de minorité (1981)
he Stranger as Void, Law, and Multitudo Transcendentalis: On the Concept of “Human Multitudes”François LaruelleIn Théorie des étrangers: science des hommes, démocratie, non-psychanalyse (Paris: Kimé, 1995), p.159-163.[1] 1) A democratic or universal conception of the body as the very dimension of the Stranger
The Stranger as Void, Law, and Multitudo Transcendentalis
We are without illusion: the programme of La Décision Philosophique risks arousing the anger of the philosophers without earning us the lack of unreserved support of the scientists. The next letter will particular address itself to the latter; scientists address themselves in
Why We Must Speak of “Science”
translated by Jeremy R. Smith “The Tsunami and the Myth of the Water-Fish: A Short Essay on Fantastic Zoology, to Add to Borges and Schrödinger” François Laruelle In Philo-Fictions 2 (2009), p.7-15.[1] To Muriel Mambrini-Doudet Abstract: As an exercise in philo-fiction, how
The Tsunami and the Myth of the Water-Fish
In response to one of my exegeses earlier in January, my colleague, Jacob Vangeest, provided a preliminary criticism directed towards non-philosophy with elements that I wish to highlight, some of which I share, and others to which I must intervene, or, to use our
For the Strangers Who We Are – a response to Jacob Vangeest
Vor einigen Tagen wurde die Kampagne #ZeroCovid gestartet, die sich unter dem Vorsatz einer vermeintlich linken Haltung als solidarischer Weg aus der Pandemie deklariert. In diesem Artikel wiederum sollen einige Gedanken entfaltet werden, warum #ZeroCovid eine inhärente Eliminatorik trägt, die für ein gleichermaßen omniversales wie massenemanzipatorisches Interesse komplett inakzeptabel sein müssen.
#ZeroCovid? Zum Ende der politischen Differenz zwischen 1 und 0
I would like to share a translation of a subsection from the recently published manuscript, Le nouvel esprit technologique (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2020) which is symbolized by the acronym NET. It is my hypothesis that this book makes up an early
From Philosophical Critique to Scientific Critique
In light of recent events surrounding Laruelle and Non-Philosophy, I’ve decided to provide my own critique of Non-Philosophy. In large part, I’m responding to my friend Jeremy R. Smith’s recent post which he asked me to do. For anyone interested in learning more
… Let us take the following axioms which guide us in the description of non-philosophy: 1) Philosophy is the capital within thought, the capital-form of our general relations to the World; it is an autonomous generalized form of socio-economic capital. 2) It is impossible
Science and Philosophy: A Global Re-Evaluation
The given-in-one does not require reflection; on the contrary, in every conceivable case it is the condition for every reception or reflection in order to be true in the last instance. The real implies here a radical autonomy, that is,
Presentation at the Panel Wither Real Abstraction?, Historical Materialism London Conference – Online 2020 Abstract: Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s epistemology enables a materialist account of the abstractions embodied by the species being of humanity, i.e., the “social relations” that include the questions
The Radical Dyad of the Non-Human: Thinking Inequality Beyond Identity as Reification