The Concept of Non-Photography: Le concept de non-photographie: edition bilingue

__Myriads of negatives tell of the world, speaking among themselves, constituting a vast conversation, filling a photosphere that is located nowhere. But one single photo is enough to express the real that all photographers aspire one day to capture, without ever quite succeeding in doing so. Nevertheless, this real cohabits intimately with negatives, with clichés as embedded in our lives as they are imperceptible. Photographs are the thousand flat facets of an ungraspable identity that only shines - and sometimes very faintly - through something else. What more is there to a photo than a curious and prurient glance? And yet it is also a fascinating secret.__ 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'. Bilingual (English/French) Edition Que disent ces essais ? la photographie en chair et en os, et c'est a peine ceux du photographe. Des myriades de clichés racontent le monde, parlent entre eux, tissent une vaste conversation, remplissent une photosphère qui n'est située nulle part. Mais une seule photo suffit à exprimer un réel que tous les photographes espèrent un jour saisir sans y parvenir. Et pourtant il est au ras des clichés, vécu autant qu'imperceptible. Les photos sont les mille facettes plates d'une identité insaisissable qui ne brille, et parfois faiblement, que hors d'elle même. Une photo, ce n'est pas grand-chose en dehors d'un regard interrogateur et concupiscent, et pourtant c'est un secret fascinant.¦¦Le concept de non-Photographie développe une pensée rigoureuse nouvelle de la photographie dans sa relation à la science, la philosophie et l'art, et introduit le lecteur à tous les concepts clés de Laruelle «non-philosophie».¦¦ Bilingue (français / anglais) Edition¦ 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.” 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' François Laruelle ; Translated By Robin Mackay. Inverted English Translation Follows French Text. Includes Bibliographical References. In French And English.