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 formal structures of time collapse, regress to mud, andspace is pushed back and forth until it bends to be trampled by thepulsations of alien music, while the thinking space becomes seasick:this is the disruption as it can be experienced
A provocation: theories of the digital have generated very little digital theory. What do I mean? And why is this the case? First, one must separate the form of digital theory from the kinds of objects it wants to study. Thus a
McKenzie Wark writes in his current contribution to the new text of the Invisible Committee “To Our Friends” that the state has produced the anarchist Black Block as the negative subject of the state itself. If we assume that today
There is a continuous insistence in philosophy on the illusion that the problem of the relationship between theory and practice can be thought of in terms of an original disjunction and a possible synthesis (the differential positions remain, but are
) For Laruelle, philosophy always revolves around dualities or differences, being – other, theory – practice, ontic-ontological, etc. 2) Laruelle leaves this terrain to fully invest his thinking power in the solutions of the One’s problem, or more precisely to
What is determination in the last instance? (20 points)
The hegemonically important discourses are currently taking place between neoliberal positions propagating the national market as a location in international competition and thus free trade, mobility for capital and a limited immigration of labour, and between the racist New Right,
For a New Leftist Policy of Subtraction – Adorno – Dark Deleuze – Laruelle (1)
Each statement of non-Marxism aims at a double methodization, either as axiom or as theorem, the latter remaining entirely related to the Marxist material, which is always different symptomatologies. The specific operations of non-Marxism should also produce new theoretical objects,
Laruelle tries to liberate the real and the one – terms he mostly uses as synonyms – from any determination by philosophical being. If the One is not a synonym for being, it cannot be realized in it either. The
Marx has often spoken of the dwarfish and narrow-minded idea of the German petty bourgeois. Without a doubt, this also applies today to the remaining stocks of German left-wing academics and their Marx reading, as one could see again on
Laruelle, the myths of and about Marxism