Non-standard anti-capitalist philosophy publication.
Gilles Deleuze claimed that paintings, or art in general, can be viewed not as a manifestation of a philosophy, a meaning, a way per se, for one can see instead the capability of philosophy in its extraction of ideas from art.[1] What can cybersigilism and eurotrash give us? What does it tell about the subject…
Nolan’s The Odyssey (2026) is something new. A determined, coherent attempt to take what functions for our culture as a sacred object, a text that demands reverence in virtue of its sheer authority, and to treat it instead as material, as occasion, the way a text becomes someone’s text, someone’s expression in the form of…
Non-Becoming confronts the one verb contemporary philosophy of the subject has left unquestioned. The critical critics have learned to dissolve every fixed identity and to celebrate every flux, every line of flight – and in doing so have made becoming the single concept immune to critique, an unquestioned standstill. This essay treats the imperative of…
In Nietzsche Contre Heidegger (1977), Laruelle puts forward the following proposition: Nietzsche’s text should be read with a materialist lens which allows us to see the concept of Will to Power as a material(ist) force. The opposing poles of Mastery and Rebellion remain in a non-relation (or a unilateral relation), reminiscent of his later concept…
There have been rumors about the disappearance of desire from contemporary art. From cinema, the museum and biennial, and from the aesthetic encounter as such: from the moment of approach to an object that exceeds comprehension, the moment of being drawn toward something whose withdrawal demands a new form of attention. What has replaced desire…