| Title | How to Behave Like a Non-Philosopher |
|---|---|
| Subtitle | Or, Speculative Versus Revisionary Metaphysics |
| Contributor | John Mullarkey(author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0032.1.17 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/speculations-4-speculative-realism/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| Copyright | Mullarkey, John |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2013-06-05 |
| Long abstract | François Laruelle’s message for philosophy is, prima facie, simple: not everything is “philosophisable.”3As soon as we gloss this message a little further, however, things become somewhat more com-plicated: not everything is reducible to “standardphilosophy.” Or, even further, what counts as phi-losophy must mutate in order for some things to be philosophisable at all. The mutation, here, is of both the so-called subject (standard philosophy) and its object (purportedly non-philosophical materials), being both “object-oriented” and “subject-ori-ented” at once within a mutation that re-orients thought-as-an-orientation. As we will see, for Laruelle, this mutation is also a re-direction: thought that was directed from philosophy to the Real reversesto being directed from the Real to philosophy. This short essay will concern itself with the meaning of this re-direction, both in terms of its significance for speculative thought as well as its connection to a type of philosophical behavior (though without any consequent behaviourism—the philosophy that reduces behaviour to one or two over-determined variables, such as “conditioning” or “disposition”). To précis our two opening epigraphs from Laruelle: in thought, there are only lines, vectors, and, perhaps, re-orientations. |
| Page range | pp. 108–113 |
| Print length | 6 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |