The Concept of Non-Photography

François Laruelle, Robin Mackay (Urbanomic Media Ltd)

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Sequence Press
01 April 2011

Photography & photographs; Philosophy: aesthetics

"A rigorous new thinking of the photograph in its relation to science, philosophy, and art, so as todiscover 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 discover an essence of photography that precedes its historical, technological and aesthetic conditions. The Concept of Non-Photography develops a rigorous new thinking of the photograph in its relation to science, philosophy, and art, and introduces the reader to all of the key concepts of Laruelle's ""non-philosophy."""

By: François Laruelle
Translated by: Robin Mackay (Urbanomic Media Ltd)
Imprint: Sequence Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 114mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 234g
ISBN: 9780983216919
ISBN 10: 0983216916
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 April 2011
Audience: General/trade , Adult education , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

What is Seen In a Photo?; A Science of Photography; A Non-Philosophy of Creation; Qu'est que voir en photo?; Un science de la photographie; Une non-philosophie de la creation

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, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London.

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