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Photo-fiction, a non-standard aesthetics
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- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- About The Author
- FranÇois Laruelle is professor emeritus at the University of Paris West Nanterre La DÉfence and the inventor of the science of philosophy, non-philosophy.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781937561116
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Univocal Publishing, (01 November 2012)
- Number of Pages
- 177
- Weight
- 258 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 194 x 127 x 25 mm
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