Archives mensuelles : octobre 2019

Alain Badiou’s SOMETIMES,WE ARE ETERNAL contains three seminars by Badiou each of which is devoted to one of the volumes in his BEING AND EVENT trilogy. The book is particularly useful as volume three of BEING AND EVENT, THE IMMANENCE … Lire la suite →

A good example of François Laruelle’s metaphysical research programme as expounded in TETRALOGOS is Clarke and Kubrick’s film 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY. This is a great film and a classic of cosmic metaphysical Stapledonian science fiction. The overarching narrative of … Lire la suite →

I recently organised a conference on François Laruelle for the MaMuPhi (mathematics-music-philosophy) seminar. The aim was to discuss Laruelle’s TETRALOGOS, published in February of this year. Michel Filippi gave a paper, as did Anne-Françoise Schmid. Her husband, François Laruelle, was … Lire la suite →

« Who are the greatest living philosophical writers? » – Nigel Warburton. This question asks us to compare incommensurable writers on the basis of our particular limited experience, finite comprehension, and one-sided criteria. Perhaps Warburton wants living proof of concrete universality. I … Lire la suite →

Nous pouvons trouver de nombreux parallèles entre les concepts principaux du programme de recherche métaphysique que François Laruelle développe dans TETRALOGOS et les figures conceptuelles de la science-fiction en tant que genre. Une liste de termes et de concepts pouvant … Lire la suite →

Ce texte comporte une présentation de TETRALOGOS, le nouveau (2019) livre de François Laruelle, suivi par un examen de sa formule pour une « science-fiction générale » et une proposition pour rendre cette formule plus générique. Abstract: (1) considérations générales … Lire la suite →

We can find many parallels between François Laruelle’s metaphysical research program as developed in TETRALOGOS and science fiction as a genre. A list of terms and concepts that can be used to discuss both include: amplitude, inventivity, mega-text, cognitive estrangement, … Lire la suite →

This text includes a summary/presentation of TETRALOGOS, the new (2019) book by François Laruelle, followed by an examination of his formula for a « general science fiction » and a proposal to make this formula more generic. Abstract (1) some … Lire la suite →

7) Conclusion François Laruelle, like all of us, has been influenced by the thinkers he has read and met, by the discussions he has had, by their power of inspiration, and by the disappointment that remains once the infatuation has … Lire la suite →

7) Conclusion François Laruelle, comme nous tous, a été influencé par les penseurs qu’il a lus, par les discussions qu’il a eues, par leur puissance d’inspiration et par la déception qui reste une fois que l’infatuation a cessé. La philosophie, … Lire la suite →