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Laruelle Galloway.indd 1 26/08/2014 5:06:06 PM Cary Wolfe, Series Editor 31 Laruelle: Against the Digital Alexander R. Galloway 30 T he Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism Steven Shaviro 29 Neocybernetics and Narration Bruce Clarke 28 Cinders Jacques Derrida 27 H yperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World Timothy Morton 26 Humanesis: Sound and Technological Posthumanism David Cecchetto 25 Artist Animal Steve Baker 24 W ithout Offending Humans: A Critique of Animal Rights Élisabeth de Fontenay 23 V ampyroteuthis Infernalis: A Treatise, with a Report by the Institut Scientifique de Recherche Paranaturaliste Vilém Flusser and Louis Bec 22 Body Drift: Butler, Hayles, Haraway Arthur Kroker 21 HumAnimal: Race, Law, Language Kalpana Rahita Seshadri 20 A lien Phenomenology, or What It’s Like to Be a Thing Ian Bogost (continued on page 281) Galloway.indd 2 26/08/2014 5:06:06 PM Laruelle Against the Digital Alexander R. Galloway posthumanities 31 University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis • London Galloway.indd 3 26/08/2014 5:06:06 PM Portions of the Introduction were published in French Theory Today: An Introduction to Possible Futures (Brooklyn: The Public School New York, 2011). A different version of chapter 5 was published as “Computers and the Superfold,” Deleuze Studies 6, no. 4 (November 2012): 513– 28. A different version of chapter 6 was published as “Laruelle, Anti- capitalist,” in Laruelle and Non- philosophy, ed. John Mullarkey and Anthony Paul Smith, 191– 208 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012). Portions of chapter 7 were published as “What Is a Hermeneutic Light?” in Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium, ed. Ed Keller, Nicola Masciandaro, and Eugene Thacker, 159– 72 (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Punctum Books, 2012) and as “Rocket: Present at Every Point of the Remote,” Dark Nights of the Universe, 89–1 00 (Miami: [NAME] Publications, 2013). Portions of chapter 8 were published as “Laruelle and Art,” continent. 2, no. 4 (2013): 230– 36. Portions of chapter 9 were published as “François Laruelle, Théorie generale des victimes. Mille et une nuits 2012,” Parrhesia 16 (2013): 102– 5. Copyright 2014 by Alexander R. Galloway All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401– 2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Galloway, Alexander R. Laruelle : against the digital / Alexander R. Galloway. (Posthumanities ; 31) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8166-9213-2 (pb : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-8166-9212-5 (hc : alk. paper) 1. Laruelle, François. 2. Philosophy, French—21st century. I. Title. B2433.L374G36 2014 194—dc23 2013051110 Printed in the United States of America on acid- free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal- opportunity educator and employer. 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Galloway.indd 4 26/08/2014 5:06:06 PM for Eugene Thacker Galloway.indd 5 26/08/2014 5:06:06 PM This page intentionally left blank Toute pensée est une capacité de saisir les divisions d’un tout . . . les divisions d’un tout absolument quelconque. —R ené Daumal, Le Mont Analogue Galloway.indd 7 26/08/2014 5:06:06 PM This page intentionally left blank Contents Preface xi Introduction The Oldest Prejudice xvii Part I. Laruelle and the Digital 1 The One Divides in Two 3 2 The Standard Model 25 3 The Digital 51 4 Events 73 Part II. Withdrawing from the Standard Model 5 Computers 93 6 Capitalism 115 7 The Black Universe 133 8 Art and Utopia 153 9 Ethics 177 10 The Generic 195 Conclusion From Digitality to Destiny 217 Acknowledgments 223 Notes 227 Index 267 Galloway.indd 9 26/08/2014 5:06:06 PM
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