Photo-Fiction, a Non-Standard Aesthetics - Univocal
Photo-Fiction, a Non-Standard Aesthetics - Univocal
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1 November, 2012
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Twenty years after cultivating a new orientation for aesthetics via the concept of non-photography, FranÇois 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.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781937561116 |
| ISBN10 | 1937561119 |
| Number Of Pages | 160 |
| Item Weight | 1000 g |
| Product Dimensions | 127 x 194 x 25 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Univocal Publishing LLC |
| Format | paperback |
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Author's Bio
FranÇois Laruelle is professor emeritus at the University of Paris West Nanterre La DÉfence and the inventor of the science of philosophy, non-philosophy.