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The Concept of Non-Photography
Francois Laruelle
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A rigorous new thinking of the photograph in its relation to science, philosophy, and art, so as to discover an essence of photography that precedes its historical, technological, and aesthetic conditions. If philosophy has always understood its relation to the world according to the model of the instantaneous flash of a photographic shot, how can there be a philosophy of photography that is not viciously self-reflexive? Challenging the assumptions made by any theory of photography that leaves its own onto-photo-logical conditions uninterrogated, Laruelle thinks the photograph non-philosophically, so as to ... Read more
A rigorous new thinking of the photograph in its relation to science, philosophy, and art, so as to discover an essence of photography that precedes its historical, technological, and aesthetic conditions. If philosophy has always understood its relation to the world according to the model of the instantaneous flash of a photographic shot, how can there be a philosophy of photography that is not viciously self-reflexive? Challenging the assumptions made by any theory of photography that leaves its own onto-photo-logical conditions uninterrogated, Laruelle thinks the photograph non-philosophically, so as to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Sequence Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780983216919
SKU
V9780983216919
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About Francois Laruelle
Francois Laruelle, Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris X (Nanterre), is the author of more than twenty books, including including Biography of the Ordinary Man, Theory of Strangers, Principles of Non-Philosophy, Future Christ, Struggle and Utopia at the End Times of Philosophy, Anti-Badiou, and Non-Standard Philosophy. Robin Mackay is a philosopher and director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic ... Read more
Reviews for The Concept of Non-Photography
What excites Laruelle is that photography incarnates a decisionless move from original to copy. Hence, contrary to the whole modern history of photography theory that assumes a wholly specular relationship between photography and its referents, photography is, in itself, a fundamentally anti-specular mechanism. -John Roberts, Philosophy of Photography