{"product_id":"9781937561116","title":"Photo-Fiction, a Non-Standard Aesthetics by Francois Laruelle","description":"Twenty years after cultivating a new orientation for aesthetics via the concept of non-photography, Fran?ois 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.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56313204638069,"sku":"9781937561116","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781937561116.jpg?v=1762825933","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781937561116","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}