François Laruelle, ‘The Concept of Non-Photography’

Maya B. Kronic (they/them) is a philosopher and Head of Research and Development at the publisher Urbanomic, which aims to engender interdisciplinary thinking and production. The Agent, patient, and product of ongoing research project on gender hyperstition and cute accelerationism, Maya B. Kronic is a recrypted iteration of the autist formerly known as Robin Mackay.

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2015

Published by Urbanomic and Sequence Press

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 its own ‘onto-photo-logical’ conditions uninterrogated, Laruelle thinks the photograph non-philosophically, so as to discover an essence of photography that precedes its historical, technological and aesthetic conditions.

The Concept of Non-Photography develops a rigorous new thinking of the photograph in its relation to science, philosophy, and art, and introduces the reader to all of the key concepts of Laruelle’s ‘non-philosophy’.