What is Rhythm? What is Rhythm? Rhythm is a temporally extended pattern in which information-transmitting processes take place. It can be described by the following parameters: spatial (distance, movement, neighbourhood), temporal (speed, limit of human perception, infinite time scales versus …
The New Image of Thought As Fusion of the Quantum and PhilosophyFrançois LaruelleFrom Tétralogos: un opéra de philosophies (Paris: Cérf, 2018), p.152-156; p.157-161.PDF 1. As An Undulatory AspectThe first phase of our construction is the constitution of the matrix or quantization under …
The New Image of Thought As Fusion of the Quantum and Philosophy
Does non-philosophy need a “manifesto” like philosophy does? At the moment of carrying out a more rigorous technical and scientific turning, testing out a second existence by making itself into a “generic science,” involving quantum thought within it, it is …
Written explanation of the bachelor thesis 1. Introduction „The future is dark, which is best thing the future can be, I think.“ Virginia Woolf[1] „A call to arm Ain’t gonna fight no moreDone fought the kitchen clockAnd the master’s clockAnd …
The new book by Thomas Nail „Theory of the Object“ brings on the one hand more clarity to the question of the relation between continuous matter flow, as conceived in his book „Being and Motion“, and discrete objects/particles, on the …
Radikal verletzliche Letztlichkeit: Paraphrasen zur Philosophie und ihren Opfern We pursue a more rigorous and more „human“ theory than philosophy usually pursues, devoted as it is to the cosmos and to being, to the sciences and to the gods. A …
From the Thought of Power to the Unpower of ThoughtFrançois LaruelleFrom Au-delà du principe de pouvoir (Paris: Payot, 1978), p.13-21PDF 1) Multiplying the suspicions concerning the ends of thought, we begin by suspecting that thought is perhaps endless, that all its power …
Democracy of-the-Last-Instance Within the Sciences: General Equivalency and Generic IdempotencyFrançois LaruelleIn Introduction aux sciences génériques (Paris: Éditions Pétra, 2008), p.97-104. 1) Many philosophers love to mock “democracy,” a theme that is either idealist or political [politicien] or popular, those who keep lying …
Democracy of-the-Last-Instance Within the Sciences: General Equivalency and Generic Idempotency
Marx’s reading of Greek atomism informs his uncompromisingly materialist stance, something we will inspect more closely further on in the chapter. At this point, suffice it to say that the contradiction that underpins Epicurean atomism, according to young Marx, is …
Chapter on Dialectics, Materialism, Change: From Epicurus to Marx via Aristotle
The Theses of Machinic Materialism and its Distinction from Dialectical MaterialismFrançois LaruelleSelections from Nietzsche contre Heidegger: thèses pour une politique nietzschéenne (Paris: Payot, 1977), p.122-136. The Theses of Machinic Materialism“Machinic materialism” is “Nietzsche’s” latent philosophy, produced at the same time as the …
The Theses of Machinic Materialism and its Distinction from Dialectical Materialism
The Fundamental Questions and Research Programmes for a Study into the NETFrançois LaruelleIn Le nouvel esprit technologique (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2020), p.85-98 This is a table of the main questions towards a critique of Technological Reason: I. EVALUATION OF THE “PHILOSOPHIES …
