The Concept of Non-Photography
$38.58
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2011
Summary
A rigorous new thinking of the photograph in its relation to science, philosophy, and art, so as todiscover an essence of photography that precedes its historical, technological, and aesthetic conditions.If philosophy has always understood its relation to the world according to the model of the instantaneous flash of a photographic shot, how can there be a “philosophy of photography” that is not viciously self-reflexive?Challenging the assumptions made by any theory of photography that leaves…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780983216919 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0983216916 |
| Author: | François Laruelle, Robin Mackay |
| Publisher: | Sequence Press |
| Imprint: | Sequence Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2011 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 114mm x 22mm |
| Series: | Urbanomic/sequence Press |
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What excites Laruelle is that photography incarnates a decisionless move from original to copy. Hence, contrary to the whole modern history of photography theory that assumes a wholly specular relationship between photography and its referents, photography is, in itself, a fundamentally anti-specular mechanism.
—John Roberts, Philosophy of PhotographyAbout The Author
François Laruelle
Fran ois Laruelle, Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris X (Nanterre), is the author of more than twenty books, including including Biography of the Ordinary Man, Theory of Strangers, Principles of Non-Philosophy, Future Christ, Struggle and Utopia at the End Times of Philosophy, Anti-Badiou, and Non-Standard Philosophy.Robin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London.
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