Le Concept de Non-Photographie [Chinese Edition]

This Chinese edition of Le Concept de Non-Photographie is the first translated work of the French philosopher François Laruelle to be published in the Chinese-speaking world. If philosophy has always understood itself and its World according to the model of the photograph, then how can there be a “philosophy of photography” that is not viciously self-reflexive? By thinking the photograph “non-philosophically”, Laruelle discovers an essence of photography that precedes its historical, technological and aesthetic conditions. Challenging the customary assumptions made by any “theory of photography” that leaves its own “onto-photo-logical” conditions uninterrogated, and utilizing the concept of a “generalized fractality” to interrogate artistic creation, The Concept of Non-Photography exposes a rigorous new thinking of the photograph in its relation to philosophy, science and art.

Originally published in English as “The Concept of Non-Photography / Le Concept de Non-Photographie”, a bilingual edition, by François Laruelle. © Urbanomic/Sequence Press, 2011. The Traditional Chinese edition is translated from the French text of the third revised edition (2015).

Original text by François Laruelle
Translated by Ng Kai Hong
Edited by Zhou Junsheng
Typography by Mulu Office & Liou Yuh Chyi
Book designed by Mulu Office
1st edition 1st printing of 1000 copies
180 pages, 186 x 118 x 10 mm
Printed in off-set (content) and risograph (packing)
PUR Binding, with removable clear PVC soft cover
Printed and bound in New Taipei City, 2025
Language: Traditional Chinese
ISBN 978-6-26986-383-9