Photo-Fiction, a Non-Standard Aesthetics

François Laruelle, Drew S. Burk

• Éditeur: Univocal Publishing
• Année: 2015
• ISBN de l'eBook:
  9781937561581
• Sujet: Philosophy
• Sujet: Philosophy History & Theory

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.

Table des matières

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• ART-FICTION, A NEW AESTHETIC GENRE
• PHOTO-FICTION,A THEORETICAL INSTALLATION
• AN AESTHETIC IN THESPIRIT OF THE QUANTUM
• PHOTO WITH THE EYES HALF-CLOSED
• UNFOLDING LIGHTNING, DECONSTRUCTIONOF THE LOGO-PHOTO-CENTRIC FLASH
• EXITING THE LOGO-PHOTO-CENTRICMODEL OR STANDARD
• THE GENERIC EXTENSION OFTHE PHOTO AS MATRIX-FICTION
• THE AESTHETIC INSURRECTION AND THEGENERIC EXTENSION OFKANTIAN AESTHETICS
• OF FICTION AS CLONE:FROM THE VECTOR TO TRANSCENDENCE
• THE TWO REALISMS
• THE GENERIC CHAOS OF PHOTO-FICTION
• ETHICS OF THE PHOTOGRAPH,FROM CONSUMPTION TO COMPASSION
• Table of Contents (French)
• AVANT-PROPOS
• L’ART-FICTION,UN NOUVEAU GENRE ESTHÉTIQUE
• LA PHOTO-FICTION,UNE INSTALLATION THÉORIQUE
• UNE ESTHÉTIQUE DANSL’ESPRIT DE LA QUANTIQUE
• LA PHOTO LES YEUX MI-CLOS
• DÉPLIER L’ÉCLAIR, LA DÉCONSTRUCTIONDU FLASH LOGO-PHOTO-CENTRIQUE
• SORTIR DU MODÈLELOGO-PHOTO-CENTRIQUE OU STANDARD
• L’EXTENSION GÉNÉRIQUEDE LA PHOTO COMME MATRICE-FICTION
• L’INSURRECTION ESTHÉTIQUE ETL’EXTENSION GÉNÉRIQUE DEL’ESTHÉTIQUE KANTIENNE
• DE LA FICTION COMME CLONE:DU VECTEUR À LA TRANSCENDANCE
• LES DEUX RÉALISMES
• LE CHAOS GÉNÉRIQUEDE LA PHOTO-FICTION
• ETHIQUE DE LA PHOTO,DE LA CONSOMMATION À LA COMPASSION