Archives mensuelles : mars 2019

We are reading Deleuze and Guattari’s WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY? from the perspective of the helpful advice it might contain for living and thinking in the 21st Century, a century that Deleuze and Guattari did not live to see. We have … Lire la suite →

Perhaps unsurprisingly, Laruelle’s « quarter turn » has its precedent in science fiction. In his recently published book « ASTOUNDING: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction » Alec Nevala-Lee notes: The September … Lire la suite →

One may find that philosophy taken as a whole is boring, tedious, monotonous, repetitive and lacking in creative intensity, with only a few exceptions. Even the exceptional cases (books, systems, concepts) can come to be banalised by their own creators, … Lire la suite →

TETRALOGOS is possibly François Laruelle’s most important and most human book. It poses the paradoxical question: can one make music with concepts? Can a work full of concepts and conceptual personae, a work of philosophy, produce and contain an inaudible … Lire la suite →

In the previous post we examined the elements and (non-)relations posited by Graham Harman’s OOP. In this post we shall see the movements, authorised and prohibited, that characterise this version of Speculative Realism. Withdrawal is eliminative, deconstructive, abstractive, élitist – … Lire la suite →

It can be useful to diagramme alternative philosophies to compare their elements and their relations, and to visualise their movements. In the case of Graham Harman’s object-oriented philosophy (OOP) we have a strongly eliminativist ontology, in which all observable, imaginable, … Lire la suite →

Je viens de recevoir TÉTRALOGOS Un opéra de philosophies par François Laruelle. Je trouve le livre très intéressant, mais je ne peut parler que des grandes lignes du projet spéculative. L’aspect musical est beaucoup plus dans la structure du livre … Lire la suite →

Laruelle devotes a little over three pages in TETRALOGOS (bottom 157 to top 161) to his differences with Deleuze, as he sees them. 1) Deleuze does not attain the « quarter turn » from reality to the Real. Reply: Deleuze’s idea of … Lire la suite →

This is my attempt to diagramme Laruelle’s text

I am reading Laruelle’s new book « TETRALOGOS An opera of philosophies » as it was written: from within a generic matrix. We shall see to what extent he satisfies his own criterion of genericity. In my view it is, as usual, … Lire la suite →