Seeing in-photo: Non-photography as Positive Barbarism

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Notes

1 Benjamin, “Experience and Poverty,” 732.

2 Laruelle, Photo-Fiction, 33.

3 Benjamin, “Experience and Poverty,” 732.

4 On the notion of heresy, see Laruelle, “Non-Philosophy as Heresy.”

5 In Derrida and Laruelle, “Controversy over the Possibility of a Science of Philosophy,” 74, Derrida remarks: ‘I have to admit that, with regard to polemos and terror, there were moments while I was listening to your description of philosophical terror as constitutive of philosophy, etc., when I was sometimes tempted to see in your own description a rigorous analysis of what you were in fact doing here’.

6 Laruelle, Principles of Non-Philosophy, 4; for a full elucidation of this structure see “Analytic of Philosophical Decision,” 231–249.

7 Laruelle, “Degrowth of Philosophy,” 331.

8 Caygill, Benjamin: The Colour of Experience, 12.

9 Benjamin, “Experience and Poverty,” 731.

10 Ibid., 732.

11 Ibid.

12 Ibid., 731 (my emphasis).

13 Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” 253, 254.

14 Ibid., 249.

15 Benjamin, Arcades Project, 462.

16 Benjamin, “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” 254 (my emphasis).

17 See Cadava, Words of Light.

18 Ibid., xviii.

19 Ibid., 5.

20 Caygill, Benjamin, 2.

21 Benjamin, “On the Program of the Coming Philosophy,” 102.

22 Caygill, Benjamin, 23.

23 MacPhee, The Architecture of the Visible: Technology and Urban Visual Culture, 186.

24 Ibid., 196.

25 Caygill, Benjamin, 3.

26 Ibid.

27 Ibid., 7.

28 Ibid.

29 Weber, “Art Aura and Media in the Work of Walter Benjamin,” 89–90.

30 Ibid., 98.

31 Ibid., 100.

32 Benjamin, “Little History of Photography,” 519.

33 Caygill, Benjamin, 31.

34 Benjamin, “The Work of Art,” 32.

35 Benjamin, “Experience and Poverty,” 732.

36 Caygill, Benjamin, 31.

37 Stocchetti, “Images and Power in the Digital Age,” 8.

38 Benjamin, “Little History of Photography,” 518.

39 Benjamin, Work of Art, 23.

40 Weber, “Art Aura and Media,” 101.

41 Rubinstein, “Value of Nothing,” 128.

42 Ibid., 129.

43 Kennedy, Chaos Media, 17.

44 Evens, “Web 2.0,” para. 2.

45 Ibid., para 3.

46 Ibid., para. 9.

47 Drucker, “Digital Ontologies.”

48 Ibid., 142.

49 See Galloway, Laruelle: Against the Digital.

50 Evens, “Web 2.0,” para. 19.

51 Laruelle, Philosophy and Non-Philosophy, 135.

52 Laruelle, “Photo-Fiction,” 33.

53 Benjamin, “Little History of Photography,” 519.

54 Laruelle, Concept of Non-Photography, 8.

55 Ibid.

56 Cadava, Words of Light, 5.

57 Ó Maoilearca, “Making Non-Standard Thoughts,” 173.

58 Brassier, “Axiomatic Heresy,” 28.

59 Benjamin, “Experience and Poverty,” 732.

60 Laruelle, Dictionary of Non-Philosophy, 78.

61 On the relation to non-Euclidean geometry, see Laruelle, Philosophy and Non-Philosophy, Chapter III.

62 Laruelle, Principles of Non-Philosophy, 11.

63 Laruelle, Concept of Non-Photography, 7.

64 Benjamin, “On the Program of the Coming Philosophy,” 104.

65 Laruelle, Principles of Non-Philosophy, 9.

66 Benjamin, “On the Program of the Coming Philosophy,” 105.

67 Scheerbart, “Glass Architecture,” 41.

68 Ibid., 47–48.

69 Benjamin, “Experience and Poverty,” 733–734.

70 Ibid., 734.

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Hannah Lammin

Hannah Lammin has a PhD in Media Arts Philosophy. She lectures in Media Theory at the University of Greenwich and in contextual studies at University of the Arts London. Her publications include: ‘A Paradoxical Architecture: Babel, and the Founding of Community through the Confounding of Tongues’, Zētēsis (2013); and ‘ACT Oedipus: Digital Theatre and the Apocalyptic Structure of Re/Presentation’, Philosophy of Photography (2012). Email: [email protected]