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Laruelle: Against the Digital

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Description for Laruelle: Against the Digital Paperback. Series: Posthumanities. Num Pages: 304 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPCF; JFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 390.

Laruelle is one of the first books in English to undertake in an extended critical survey of the work of the idiosyncratic French thinker François Laruelle, the promulgator of non-standard philosophy. Laruelle, who was born in 1937, has recently gained widespread recognition, and Alexander R. Galloway suggests that readers may benefit from colliding Laruelle’s concept of the One with its binary counterpart, the Zero, to explore more fully the relationship between philosophy and the digital.

In Laruelle, Galloway argues that the digital is a philosophical concept and not simply a technical one, employing a detailed analysis of Laruelle to build ... Read more

Digital machines dominate today’s world, while so-called digital thinking—that is, binary thinking such as presence and absence or self and world—is often synonymous with what it means to think at all. In examining Laruelle and digitality together, Galloway shows how Laruelle remains a profoundly non-digital thinker—perhaps the only non-digital thinker today—and engages in an extensive discussion on the interconnections between media, philosophy, and technology.

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Product Details

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Posthumanities
Condition
New
Weight
388g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816692132
SKU
V9780816692132
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About Alexander R. Galloway
Alexander Galloway is professor of media, culture, and communication at New York University. His many books include The Interface Effect and The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Minnesota, 2007).

Reviews for Laruelle: Against the Digital
"Laruelle: Against the Digital is a compelling read for any form of investigations in today’s conditions of power, aesthetics, and thought. Alexander R. Galloway’s lucid writing takes us on a thrilling journey into the details of Laruelle’s uncompromising thought of the One. It offers us challengingly fresh material for developing a non-representational view of computers, capitalism, art and ethics. Galloway’s ... Read more

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