I have recently finished translating Francois Laruelle’s (with his collectif) Dictionary of Non-Philosophy. Kime: Paris (1998). Please feel free to spread the knowledge far and wide, because I intend this to help encourage people to start engaging with non-philosophical concepts and their inevitable entry into all facets of thinking, including the philosophical.
I also want to thank Sid Littlefield and Anthony Paul Smith for their work on some of the definitions. It makes it all the more fitting that the translation would also be a collaborative effort. In that sense, I also want to thank Joe Weissman and Chris Eby for their intellectual support, as well as Ben Woodward and Nick Srnicek for their efforts in editing the work. Lastly, I want to thank Sid again for his constant efforts towards enriching my own intellectual development and those of many others who have the veritable luck to learn from him.
Also, last but first and foremost, let me extend my thanks to Laruelle and his collaborators (A.-F. Schmid, S. Valdinoci, T. Brachet, G. Kieffer, L. Leroy, and D. Nicolet) for their endeavors to make an economy of philosophical vocabularies, i.e. a non-philosophical dictionary, possible.
Here’s a link to the pdf. Enjoy!
Joseph Weissman
Taylor Adkins
Great work, sir!
Thanks, it’s about time philosophy was shared with all rather than having a few who deem themselves wise narrow it to a few by using a language that defies understanding. Complexity, if not expressed in simplicity is lost.
In keeping with the above post, I confess that I was able to decipher some of the text after about ten hours, at which point I came to the preliminary conclusion that Laruelle is “simply” haha! trying to mathematize philosophy–not in the sense of using actual mathematics, but in the sense of de-intentionalizing its content. But why did he need to use so much jargon? So this statement would seem to be itself mathematical and devoid of “decision” ?
I find myself struggling with/wondering about this question as well. Taylor, any thoughts on this?
(Gorgeous image, by the way.)
Excellent work Mr. Adkins. I’m certain that this will be or great use to many people… including (I am not ashamed to say) myself.