Laruelle : against the digital

Author(s)

• Galloway, Alexander R.

Bibliographic Information

Laruelle : against the digital

Alexander R. Galloway

（Posthumanities, 31）

University of Minnesota Press, c2014

• : pb

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-265) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Laruelle is one of the first books in English to undertake in an extended critical survey of the work of the idiosyncratic French thinker Francois Laruelle, the promulgator of non-standard philosophy. Laruelle, who was born in 1937, has recently gained widespread recognition, and Alexander R. Galloway suggests that readers may benefit from colliding Laruelle's concept of the One with its binary counterpart, the Zero, to explore more fully the relationship between philosophy and the digital. In Laruelle, Galloway argues that the digital is a philosophical concept and not simply a technical one, employing a detailed analysis of Laruelle to build this case while referencing other thinkers in the French and Continental traditions, including Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, Martin Heidegger, and Immanuel Kant. In order to explain clearly Laruelle's concepts such as the philosophical decision and the principle of sufficient philosophy, Galloway lays a broad foundation with his discussions of "the One" as it has developed in continental philosophy, the standard model of philosophy, and how philosophers view "the digital." Digital machines dominate today's world, while so-called digital thinking-that is, binary thinking such as presence and absence or self and world-is often synonymous with what it means to think at all. In examining Laruelle and digitality together, Galloway shows how Laruelle remains a profoundly non-digital thinker-perhaps the only non-digital thinker today-and engages in an extensive discussion on the interconnections between media, philosophy, and technology.

Table of Contents

Contents Preface Introduction: The Oldest Prejudice Part I. Laruelle and the Digital 1. The One Divides in Two 2. The Standard Model 3. The Digital 4. Events Part II. Withdrawing from the Standard Model 5. Computers 6. Capitalism 7. The Black Universe 8. Art and Utopia 9. Ethics 10. The Generic Conclusion: From Digitality to Destiny Acknowledgments Notes Index

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB20393428
• ISBN:
  • 9780816692132
• LCCN: 2013051110
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Minneapolis
• Pages/Volumes: xxxv, 280 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : B2433.L374
  • DC23 : 194
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Laruelle, Franc̦ois
  • LCSH : Philosophy, French -- 21st century
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA87853072