Derivatives are always also about a differentiality that is displaced and shifting in time, whereby one can paraphrase this with Derrida’s stratagem of “différance,” which he introduced in his writing Randgänge der Philosophie. For Derrida, the stratagem of différance already […]
On Derridas Strategem of différance
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
interview (in translation) that he gave to Carole Dely, for the journal Sens publique on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of france’s May 68. Carole Dely – May 68 is often presented as one of the most important social
68, without end. Exchanges with Jean-Luc Nancy
If one does not read Deleuze exclusively in the context of a position critical of reason, which is commonly paraphrased as transcendental empiricism (cf. Rölli 2003), nor as a proponent of an ontological realism (cf. De Landa 2006), then Deleuze
The Problem of The “Problem” – On Deleuze (and Althusser)
Marxism constitutes one of the main currents of contemporary thought. By now, there is no counting the works that set out to expound, combat, or even ‘supersede’ it. It is already no easy task to find the path that cuts
Thesis: States and state-capture [comparison + appropriation] are solutions to the problem posed by the lines of flight encountered in the historical process of State formation. But while both capture and its evasion presupposes these lines of flight as indeterminate
We live in an age of objects. Today there are more objects and more kinds of objects than ever before in human history, and they continue to multi-ply at a mind-boggling rate. The sciences have succeeded in transforming almost every
Theory of The Object (Introduction)
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”
Below, we share a chapter of this work entitled, “Of Being-in-Common”, which was also published in united states as a separate essay in a volume entitled, Community at Loose Ends (1991). … What could be more common than to be,
Notes for the London Conference Birbeck College The following are the notes that Jean-Luc Nancy prepared for the conference ‘On the Idea of Communism’, March 2009. An edited version is available in Costas Douzinas & Slavoj Zizek (eds), The Idea of
Process Ontology and Becoming The historical precursors of the philosophy of motion have also had a major influence on a number of contemporary process ontologies, or ontologies of becoming. Process ontology, like the ontology of movement, emphasizes flux and becoming
What is the difference between process philosophy and the philosophy of movement?
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)