Photo-fiction, a non-standard aesthetics = photo-fiction, une esthétique non-standard

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. Essays Extending The Research In The Concept Of Non-photography, Urbanomic/sequence Press, 2011. Art Fiction, A New Aestetic Genre -- Photo-fiction, A Theorectical Installation -- An Aesthetic In The Spirit Of The Quantum -- Photo With The Eyes Half-closed -- Unfolding Lightning, Deconstruction Of The Logo-photo-centric Flash -- Exiting The Logo-photo-centric Model Or Standard -- The Generic Extension Of The Photo As Matrix-fiction -- The Aesthetic Insurrection And The Generic Extension Of Kantian 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. L'art-fiction, Un Nouveau Genre Esthétique -- La Photo-fiction, Une Installation Théorique -- Une Esthétique Dans L'esprit De La Quantique -- La Photo Les Yeux Mi-clos --déplier L'éclair, La Déconstruction Du Flash Logo-photo-centrique -- Sortir Du Modèle Logo-photo-centrique Ou Standard -- L'extension Générique De La Photo Comme Matrice-fiction -- L'insurrection Esthétique Et L'extension Générique De L'esthétique Kantienne -- De La Fiction Comme Clone: Du Vecteur à La Transcendance -- Les Deux Réalismes -- Le Chaos Générique De La Photo-fiction -- Ethique De La Photo, De La Consommation à La Compassion. François Laruelle ; Translated By Drew S. Burk. Includes Bibliographical References. Art fiction, a new aesthetic genre Photo-fiction, a theorectical installation An aesthetic in the spirit of the quantum Photo with the eyes half-closed Unfolding lightning, deconstruction of the logo-photo-centric flash Exiting the logo-photo-centric model or standard The generic extension of the photo as matrix-fiction The aesthetic insurrection and the generic extension of Kantian 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. L'art-fiction, un nouveau genre esthétique La photo-fiction, une installation théorique Une esthétique dans l'esprit de la quantique La photo les yeux mi-clos Déplier l'éclair, la déconstruction du flash logo-photo-centrique Sortir du modèle logo-photo-centrique ou standard L'extension générique de la photo comme matrice-fiction L'insurrection esthétique et l'extension générique de l'esthétique Kantienne De la fiction comme clone: du vecteur à la transcendance Les deux réalismes Le chaos générique de la photo-fiction Ethique de la photo, de la consommation à la compassion. Laruelle.Photo-Fiction I 1 Laruelle.Photo-Fiction II 11 Laruelle.Photo-Fiction III 21 Laruelle.Photo-Fiction IV 31 Laruelle.Photo-Fiction V 41