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PublisherUrbanomic

ISBN-100983216916

ISBN-139780983216919

eBay Product ID (ePID)124200425

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Book TitleConcept of Non-Photography

Number of Pages304 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2011

TopicGeneral, Criticism, Aesthetics, Essays

GenrePhilosophy, Photography

AuthorFrancois Laruelle

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight8.5 Oz

Item Length6.9 in

Item Width4.6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2012-472584

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsWhat excites Laruelle is that photography incarnates a decisionless move from original to copy. Hence, contrary to the whole modern history of photography theory that assumes a wholly specular relationship between photography and its referents, photography is, in itself, a fundamentally anti-specular mechanism.-- John Roberts , Philosophy of Photography --

Dewey Decimal770.1

SynopsisA rigorous new thinking of the photograph in its relation to science, philosophy, and art, so as todiscover an essence of photography that precedes its historical, technological, and aesthetic conditions. 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.", A rigorous new thinking of the photograph in its relation to science, philosophy, and art, so as to discover an essence of photography that precedes its historical, technological, and aesthetic conditions. 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."

LC Classification NumberTR183.L286 2011