Chris Berry
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622099845
- eISBN:
- 9789882206731
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622099845.003.0009
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter examines the imaging and the imagination of the Globalized City. It focuses on three texts to compare two different visions of one urban or conurban space that has emerged post ...
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This chapter examines the imaging and the imagination of the Globalized City. It focuses on three texts to compare two different visions of one urban or conurban space that has emerged post globalization—the Pearl River Delta. Rem Koolhas has discussed the Globalized City in his essay called “The Generic City”, where he celebrates the postmodern tendencies of globalization towards homogenization, the erasure of history, and the loss of identity bemoaned by so many others. Another text examined is U-théque's documentary San Yuan Li, which emphasizes history and local specificity. The third text, Harvard Design School Project on the City: Great Leap Forward was edited by Koolhaas and this tracks the recent transformation and urbanization of the Pearl River Delta. The chapter concludes by suggesting that although the difference between Koolhaas's and U-théque's visions of the Globalized City is real, both of them are within the order of globalization.Less
This chapter examines the imaging and the imagination of the Globalized City. It focuses on three texts to compare two different visions of one urban or conurban space that has emerged post globalization—the Pearl River Delta. Rem Koolhas has discussed the Globalized City in his essay called “The Generic City”, where he celebrates the postmodern tendencies of globalization towards homogenization, the erasure of history, and the loss of identity bemoaned by so many others. Another text examined is U-théque's documentary San Yuan Li, which emphasizes history and local specificity. The third text, Harvard Design School Project on the City: Great Leap Forward was edited by Koolhaas and this tracks the recent transformation and urbanization of the Pearl River Delta. The chapter concludes by suggesting that although the difference between Koolhaas's and U-théque's visions of the Globalized City is real, both of them are within the order of globalization.
Alexander R. Galloway
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816692125
- eISBN:
- 9781452949574
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816692125.003.0010
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Definition of four operations central to the generic: generic insufficiency, casting, cheating, and forcing. This culminates in the final argument of the book: that there exists today a tendential ...
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Definition of four operations central to the generic: generic insufficiency, casting, cheating, and forcing. This culminates in the final argument of the book: that there exists today a tendential fall in the rate of digitality.Less
Definition of four operations central to the generic: generic insufficiency, casting, cheating, and forcing. This culminates in the final argument of the book: that there exists today a tendential fall in the rate of digitality.
Alexander R. Galloway
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816692125
- eISBN:
- 9781452949574
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816692125.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
A definition of the standard model of philosophy based on four distinct aspects: (1) the affirmative transcendental of differential being, (2) the negative transcendental of dialectical being, (3) ...
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A definition of the standard model of philosophy based on four distinct aspects: (1) the affirmative transcendental of differential being, (2) the negative transcendental of dialectical being, (3) the affirmative immanence of continuous being, and (4) the negative immanence of generic being.Less
A definition of the standard model of philosophy based on four distinct aspects: (1) the affirmative transcendental of differential being, (2) the negative transcendental of dialectical being, (3) the affirmative immanence of continuous being, and (4) the negative immanence of generic being.
Alexander R. Galloway
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816692125
- eISBN:
- 9781452949574
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816692125.003.0009
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Chapters 9 and 10 form the “final act” of the book, in which theories of digitality and analogicity are superimposed on top of the political and the ethical. This reveals a general matrix for action ...
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Chapters 9 and 10 form the “final act” of the book, in which theories of digitality and analogicity are superimposed on top of the political and the ethical. This reveals a general matrix for action within the digital world.Less
Chapters 9 and 10 form the “final act” of the book, in which theories of digitality and analogicity are superimposed on top of the political and the ethical. This reveals a general matrix for action within the digital world.
Alexander R. Galloway
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816692125
- eISBN:
- 9781452949574
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816692125.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
François Laruelle, the idiosyncratic French thinker and promulgator of “non-standard philosophy,” is currently experiencing a renaissance in the English-speaking world. In the first extended analysis ...
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François Laruelle, the idiosyncratic French thinker and promulgator of “non-standard philosophy,” is currently experiencing a renaissance in the English-speaking world. In the first extended analysis of Laruelle’s work available in English, Alexander R. Galloway suggests that we collide Laruelle’s concept of the “One” with its binary counterpart, the Zero, in order to explore the relationship between philosophy and the digital. Part exegetical monograph on the work of Laruelle, part exploration of the nature of digitality, this book argues that the digital is a philosophical concept not simply a technical one. It uses a detailed reading of Laruelle to make the case, with help from others in the French and continental tradition including Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, Martin Heidegger, and Immanuel Kant. Digital machines dominate the world, while so-called digital thinking–binarisms like presence and absence, or self and world–is often synonymous with what it means to think at all. By exploring Laruelle and digitality together, the goal is not to forge a new digital Laruelle. On the contrary, the goal is to show how, even in this day and age, Laruelle remains a profoundly non-digital thinker, perhaps the only non-digital thinker we have. With chapters on computers, capitalism, art, the ethical, and the political, Galloway shows how a withdrawal from the digital reveals an immanent and material universe.Less
François Laruelle, the idiosyncratic French thinker and promulgator of “non-standard philosophy,” is currently experiencing a renaissance in the English-speaking world. In the first extended analysis of Laruelle’s work available in English, Alexander R. Galloway suggests that we collide Laruelle’s concept of the “One” with its binary counterpart, the Zero, in order to explore the relationship between philosophy and the digital. Part exegetical monograph on the work of Laruelle, part exploration of the nature of digitality, this book argues that the digital is a philosophical concept not simply a technical one. It uses a detailed reading of Laruelle to make the case, with help from others in the French and continental tradition including Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, Martin Heidegger, and Immanuel Kant. Digital machines dominate the world, while so-called digital thinking–binarisms like presence and absence, or self and world–is often synonymous with what it means to think at all. By exploring Laruelle and digitality together, the goal is not to forge a new digital Laruelle. On the contrary, the goal is to show how, even in this day and age, Laruelle remains a profoundly non-digital thinker, perhaps the only non-digital thinker we have. With chapters on computers, capitalism, art, the ethical, and the political, Galloway shows how a withdrawal from the digital reveals an immanent and material universe.
Alexander R. Galloway
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816692125
- eISBN:
- 9781452949574
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816692125.003.0003
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Definition of the digital as “the one divides in two” and the analog as “the two integrates as one.”
Definition of the digital as “the one divides in two” and the analog as “the two integrates as one.”
Alexander R. Galloway
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816692125
- eISBN:
- 9781452949574
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816692125.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter explores the theory of the event as either relation (Deleuze) or decision (Badiou). Then, with help from Laruelle, we offer a third option: the event as indecision.
This chapter explores the theory of the event as either relation (Deleuze) or decision (Badiou). Then, with help from Laruelle, we offer a third option: the event as indecision.
Alexander R. Galloway
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816692125
- eISBN:
- 9781452949574
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816692125.003.0008
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
A close analysis of some rare texts by Laruelle on fine art, one on the American artist James Turrell and the other on the little known Hungarian artist August von Briesen. These texts provide an ...
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A close analysis of some rare texts by Laruelle on fine art, one on the American artist James Turrell and the other on the little known Hungarian artist August von Briesen. These texts provide an overview of Laruelle’s non-standard aesthetics.Less
A close analysis of some rare texts by Laruelle on fine art, one on the American artist James Turrell and the other on the little known Hungarian artist August von Briesen. These texts provide an overview of Laruelle’s non-standard aesthetics.
Alexander R. Galloway
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816692125
- eISBN:
- 9781452949574
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816692125.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
A brief overview of the concept of “the One” within contemporary continental philosophy. Three questions structure the discussion: What is philosophy? Where did philosophy come from? And what is it ...
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A brief overview of the concept of “the One” within contemporary continental philosophy. Three questions structure the discussion: What is philosophy? Where did philosophy come from? And what is it like without philosophy?Less
A brief overview of the concept of “the One” within contemporary continental philosophy. Three questions structure the discussion: What is philosophy? Where did philosophy come from? And what is it like without philosophy?
Alexander R. Galloway
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816692125
- eISBN:
- 9781452949574
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816692125.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Here the Laruelle-Deleuze relation is addressed directly by focusing on Deleuze’s late writings on digitality and the control society. The goal of the chapter is to derive the principle of sufficient ...
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Here the Laruelle-Deleuze relation is addressed directly by focusing on Deleuze’s late writings on digitality and the control society. The goal of the chapter is to derive the principle of sufficient computation and the notion of a computational decision.Less
Here the Laruelle-Deleuze relation is addressed directly by focusing on Deleuze’s late writings on digitality and the control society. The goal of the chapter is to derive the principle of sufficient computation and the notion of a computational decision.
Alexander R. Galloway
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816692125
- eISBN:
- 9781452949574
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816692125.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
The first of two chapters on Laruelle’s aesthetics. Here the focus is light, visuality, color, and blackness.
The first of two chapters on Laruelle’s aesthetics. Here the focus is light, visuality, color, and blackness.
John Harris
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- April 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198707592
- eISBN:
- 9780191822001
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198707592.003.0002
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Moral Philosophy
This chapter discusses how the question: “how to be good?” differs from the question “how to do right?” and considers testing the hypothesis that someone is good, and what thinking about the exercise ...
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This chapter discusses how the question: “how to be good?” differs from the question “how to do right?” and considers testing the hypothesis that someone is good, and what thinking about the exercise tells us about goodness and hence of course about how to increase goodness in the world and in people. How in short to answer the question: what is moral enhancement? Here the author explores the idea that to act morally is to act for the best “all things considered”. In considering what it is like to be good we find that the nature of the good is generic, that what is good for the most part holds good for people across time, culture, and society. This theme pervades the book and is taken up again in the final chapters.Less
This chapter discusses how the question: “how to be good?” differs from the question “how to do right?” and considers testing the hypothesis that someone is good, and what thinking about the exercise tells us about goodness and hence of course about how to increase goodness in the world and in people. How in short to answer the question: what is moral enhancement? Here the author explores the idea that to act morally is to act for the best “all things considered”. In considering what it is like to be good we find that the nature of the good is generic, that what is good for the most part holds good for people across time, culture, and society. This theme pervades the book and is taken up again in the final chapters.
Alexander R. Galloway
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816692125
- eISBN:
- 9781452949574
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816692125.003.0006
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
Like the previous chapter, this chapter explores actually existing digitality by explaining Laruelle’s use of Marx and marxist theory. Through a reading of Laruelle’s book Introduction to ...
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Like the previous chapter, this chapter explores actually existing digitality by explaining Laruelle’s use of Marx and marxist theory. Through a reading of Laruelle’s book Introduction to Non-Marxism, we show how Laruelle promulgates a novel form of marxism rooted in the militant denial of any form of exchange.Less
Like the previous chapter, this chapter explores actually existing digitality by explaining Laruelle’s use of Marx and marxist theory. Through a reading of Laruelle’s book Introduction to Non-Marxism, we show how Laruelle promulgates a novel form of marxism rooted in the militant denial of any form of exchange.
