TAKING FROM BEHIND ZAFER ARACAGÖK 09/10/2015 – 07/11/2015 ALAN Istanbul presents Zafer Aracagök’s new show Taking From Behind! With his new show, Taking from Behind, Zafer Aracagök forces the line and the watercolour to a realm of figural trajectories. Finding […]
QUESTION: When you describe capitalism, you say: ‘There isn’t the slightest operation, the slightest industrial or financial mechanism that does not reveal the dementia of the capitalist machine and the pathological character of its rationality (not at all a false
An Interview with Deleuze/Guattari: Capitalism, a very special delirium.
Nothing could be more decidedly foreign to the non-standard philosophy of François Laruelle than the mathematical treatment I am about to give here. This alone seems an excellent reason to proceed. The reader should not expect a thorough formalisation of
Structure and System in Badiou and Laruelle
I decided to take Geoff Dyer’s Out of Sheer Rage, his book on not writing a book on D. H. Lawrence, to read on the plane on our package holiday to Sicily. It had been recommended by a colleague years
Now that the SR/OOO wave has crested, crashed, and receded, we can start to evaluate it with the advantage of perspective. I won’t attempt to offer an autopsy here, but I do want to address a few points and then
Assessing the Legacy of That Thing That Happened After Poststructuralism
1) ENTER THE MATRIX “You are entering a zone of “non-philosophy”… For you the philosopher it is a knowledge-collider, for you the physicist it is a conceptual maze – you are in the Matrix” (first sentence, PHILOSOPHIE NON-STANDARD, 7, my
QUANTUM COLLISIONS Comments on the first introduction to François Laruelle’s NON-STANDARD
Included here are excerpts from an early version of the forthcoming book Dark Deleuze and the Death of this World by Andrew Culp. (2) From the Chapel to the CryptThere are those who have hitherto only enlightened the world in various
Contemporary philosopher and feminist theoretician, Rosi Braidotti’s The Posthuman is a rather academically heavy book in terms of esoteric cryptic jargon (for some) that skims from Spinoza, Deleuze, Foucault, Latour, Haraway and others. Regardless, it is a rather enthralling Cultural
Book Review of The Posthuman by Rosi Braidotti
Das Reale und das Eine Für François Laruelle ist die Philosophie definitiv das älteste Vorurteil. Natürlich haben die Philosophen etwas ganz anderes im Blick, wenn sie sich immer wieder die Frage »Was ist Philosophie?« stellen; oft genug wollen sie sich
Laruelle und die Non-Philosophie
The cultural philosopher Jean Baudrillard’s birthday is on July 27th and I thought it might be worthwhile to review his very first text, one that is relatively unknown to the general public. Many in the art world are familiar at
On Jean Baudrillard’s Pataphysics
Ich kann nicht handeln. Ich kann nur als … handeln. Wer als Ich handelt, ist ein Verbrecher, ein Wahnsinniger, jedenfalls kein guter Mensch. Im als … steckt die Legitimation und die Erklärung des Handelns. Wer handelt, sucht sich ein als
Über Identität (und ihren Wandel)
