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
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
… 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 highest formal act of the philosophical Decision through which philosophical faith in the real enables the latter to be posited as the Real in an illusory way. It is consequently the real cause of the appearance of philosophy. Auto-position
Auto-Position and Being-in-One (Being-According-to-the-One)
In order to determine the characteristics of non-philosophy, we frame it in opposition to an image of an established paradigm: Deconstruction (as suggested by Jean-Luc Nancy in La deconstruction du christianisme).1 We comment on this image, we add to it,
Deconstruction and Non-Philosophy
Rendering Marxism Real and Intelligible Marxism may have “lacked” the Real and tied its fate to the history-world. It may have consequently lacked the theory according-to-the-Real of this history-world. These are not just some “observations,” but a new style of
Between Philosophy and Non-Philosophy
by François Laruelletranslated from the French by Jeremy R. Smith this piece first appeared in Barricade: A Journal of Antifascism and Translation A materialist politics of meaning1 [sens]1. There are at least two means of making a politics of meaning.
“Rebellious postulations”: from Beyond the Power Principle
I. Everything seems to force the opposition between non-philosophy and the philosophy that takes the equation mathematics=ontology as its ontological base. This opposition can be identified on four levels: 1. The central and guiding theme: on the one
Laruelle’s “Badiou and Non-Philosophy: a Parallel”
The secret does not need communication in order to be what it is, to be known and to be an “object” of a rigorous science. But communication needs the secret in order to be what it is. Between the secret
The Truth According to Hermes: Theorems on the Secret and Communication