Laruelle [electronic resource] : Against the Digital

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Galloway, Alexander R.

Series:

Posthumanities

Posthumanities ; v.31

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Laruelle, Franco̦is.

Philosophy, French--21st century.

Philosophy, French.

Local Subjects:

Laruelle, Franco̦is.

Philosophy, French--21st century.

Philosophy, French.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Laruelle is one of the first books in English to undertake in an extended critical survey of the work of the idiosyncratic French thinker François 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,

Contents:

Cover; 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; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-4529-4287-0