Twenty years after cultivating a new orientation for aesthetics via the concept of non-photography, Francois Laruelle returns, having further developed his notion of a non-standard aesthetics. Published for the first time in a bilingual edition, "Photo-Fiction, a Non-Standard Aesthetics" expounds on Laruelle's current explorations into a photographic thinking as an alternative to the worn-out notions of aesthetics based on an assumed domination of philosophy over art. He proposes a new philosophical photo-fictional apparatus, or philo-fiction, that strives for a discursive mimesis of the photographic apparatus and the flash of the Real entailed in its process of image making. "A bit like if an artisan, to use a Socratic example, instead of making a camera based off of diagrams found in manuals, on the contrary had as his or her project the designing of a completely new apparatus of philo-fiction, thus capable of producing not simply photos, but photo-fictions." One must enter into a space for seeing the vectorial and the imaginary number. Laruelle's philo-fictions become not art installations, but "theoretical installations" calling for the consideration of the possibility of a non-standard aesthetics being of an equal or superior power to art and philosophy, an aesthetics in-the-last-instance that is itself an inventive and creative act of the most contemporary kind.
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Twenty years after cultivating a new orientation for aesthetics via the concept of non-photography, Francois Laruelle returns, having further developed his notion of a non-standard aesthetics. Published for the first time in a bilingual edition, "Photo-Fiction, a Non-Standard Aesthetics" expounds on Laruelle's current explorations into a photographic thinking as an alternative to the worn-out notions of aesthetics based on an assumed domination of philosophy over art. He proposes a new philosophical photo-fictional apparatus, or philo-fiction, that strives for a discursive mimesis of the photographic apparatus and the flash of the Real entailed in its process of image making. "A bit like if an artisan, to use a Socratic example, instead of making a camera based off of diagrams found in manuals, on the contrary had as his or her project the designing of a completely new apparatus of philo-fiction, thus capable of producing not simply photos, but photo-fictions." One must enter into a space for seeing the vectorial and the imaginary number. Laruelle's philo-fictions become not art installations, but "theoretical installations" calling for the consideration of the possibility of a non-standard aesthetics being of an equal or superior power to art and philosophy, an aesthetics in-the-last-instance that is itself an inventive and creative act of the most contemporary kind.
Imprint | Univocal Publishing LLC |
Country of origin | United States |
Series | Univocal |
Release date | November 2012 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days |
First published | 2012 |
Authors | Francois Laruelle |
Translators | Drew S. Burk |
Dimensions | 194 x 127 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback |
Pages | 160 |
Edition | New |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-937561-11-6 |
Barcode | 9781937561116 |
Languages | value, value |
Categories | |
LSN | 1-937561-11-9 |