The Concept of Non-Photography
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The Concept of Non-Photography

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The Concept of Non-Photography François Laruelle Urbanomic/SequenceApril 2011; Second edition 2012Bilingual (English/French) editionEnglish Translation by Robin MackayPaperback 115x175mm, 286pp. ISBN 978-0-9832169-1-9 If philosophy has always understood itself and its World according to the model of the photograph, then how can there be a "philosophy of photography" that is not viciously self-reflexive? By thinking the photograph "non-philosophically", Laruelle discovers an essence of photography that precedes its historical, technological and aesthetic conditions. Challenging the customary assumptions made by any "theory of photography" that leaves its own "onto-photo-logical" conditions uninterrogated, and utilizing the concept of a "generalized fractality" to interrogate artistic creation, The Concept of Non-Photography exposes a rigorous new thinking of the photograph in its relation to philosophy, science and art.   François Laruelle (1937–2024) was Professor Emeritus at the Univ

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