Archives mensuelles : juin 2020

PURITY AND INTENSITY OF THOUGHT There is a great purity and intensity in Laruelle’s exigency of thought that account for its attraction. I am turning to his book THE LAST HUMANITY in the post-Covid context to see if he can … Lire la suite →

MUTATION AND THE INVENTION OF CONCEPTS Laruelle’s book IN THE LAST HUMANITY The New Ecological Science (to give it its full title, translated literally) begins with the basic movement of his philosophical project: to revise concepts, to expand concepts beyond … Lire la suite →

QUANTUM LIVING vs NEWTONIAN LIFE This Laruellean critique of « life » as a positive concept, one that needs to be transformed by a generic quantum operator, clarifies Zizek’s reserves over Adrian Johnston’s attempt to reformulate his philosophy in terms of biology … Lire la suite →

 LIVING-WITHOUT-LIFE It is useful in this context to turn to Laruelle’s recent work, THE LAST HUMANITY, to find a less philosophical, and more ecological (in a non-standard sense of ecology) conceptual frame capable of avoiding the traps implicit in the … Lire la suite →

THE INEFFICIENCY OF SUFFICIENCY Thinking about the various philosophical responses to the Coronavirus epidemic, one is struck by how much they confirm Laruelle’s diagnosis of philosophical sufficiency. Those philosophers that have expressed their opinion on this subject have tended, as … Lire la suite →

ABSTRACT: DUNE est l’histoire d’un voyage initiatique qui tourne mal. Au lieu d’épanouir son individualité et de devenir le héros qui a dépassé son propre égoïsme et qui agit en vue de la libération de tous, Paul Atréides devient l’Empereur … Lire la suite →