Laruelle, François. Nietzsche contre Heidegger. Payot: Paris, 1977, p. 9-20. Translated by Taylor Adkins 1. THE TWO POLITICS OF NIETZSCHE Thesis 1: Nietzsche is the revolutionary thinker who corresponds to the era of Imperialism in Capitalism, and more specifically to the era […]
We ordinarily recognize a single machine-Man1 tradition. But there are two, perhaps three; they appear the moment when the grouping of the objects of knowledge and history of ideas to which philosophy is accustomed is substituted for another grouping, that
Homo ex Machina – How One Becomes Machine-Man
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 theoretical hypotheses. They assume a
Laruelle, François. “Le concept d’une ‘technologie première’” in Gilbert Simondon: une pensée de l’individituation et la technique. Paris: Albin Michel, 1994. 206-219. The Concept of a “First Technology” François Laruelle A “Unified Theory” of Technics and Technology In order to
The Concept of a ‘First Technology’
Translated by Taylor Adkins and Chris Eby The unified theory of thought and computing [calcul][2], a unification in-the-last-identity, is a task facing every encyclopedic mind (Morin, Serres). It is also the theme of the transcendental computer (TC), of a machine
The Transcendental Computer: A Non-Philosophical Utopia
Laruelle, Francois. Introduction au non-marxism. PUF: Paris, 2000. 39-55. translated by Taylor Adkins Chapter III: Determination-in-the-Last-Instance First Elucidation of the Determination-in-the-Last-Instance (DLI) The determination-in-the-last-instance, invented by Marx-Engels for historical Materialism, never received from them a concept adequate enough to simultaneously
Introduction to Non-Marxism: Determination-in-the-Last-Instance (DLI)
In the beginning there is Black – man and Universe, rather than philosopher and World. pdf here
ON THE BLACK UNIVERSE. In the Human Foundations of Color