Photo-Fiction, a Non-Standard Aesthetics (Univocal)

by François Laruelle (Author), Drew S. Burk (Author)

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  2012

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  Twenty years after cultivating a new orientation for aesthetics via the concept of non-photography, Fran\u00e7ois 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\u2019s 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. \u201cA 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.\u201d One must enter into a space for seeing the vectorial and the imaginary number. Laruelle\u2019s philo-fictions become not art installations, but \u201ctheoretical installations\u201d 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.