"This collection brings together an internationally known and interdisciplinary group of scholars, including a major new essay by Laruelle himself. Together they use non-philosophy to cross the boundaries between philosophy and performance"--.

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
  • Non-philosophy and Performance
  • Chapter Summaries
  • Notes
• Chapter 1: Art Saved or Destroyed by Its Works
  • Aesthetics Within the Limits of the Quantum: From the Meta-artist to the Non-artist
  • Marx with Planck (the Quantum of Contemporary Art and Aesthetics)
  • SuperIMposition or the Non-aesthetic Cloud: The Distribution of Contemporary Art as Data of the Art ‘cloud’
  • ‘Putting to work’ (Non-locality, Non-separability and Non-commutativity of the Ontological Variables of the Work): The (Limited) Onto-logical Indetermination of Art
  • The Subtractive/Additive Balance of Art as Complex (and Its Resolution by Superimposition?)
  • The Quantum of Contemporary Art as Principle of Least Reflection or Minimal Reflection of the World, or Principle of Least Mimesis
  • Art as Collision or Fixed Decoherence
  • An Aesthetic of Complementarity
  • The Quantum Night and the Birth of Light
• Chapter 2: Out of the Ordinary: On Laruelle and the Mystic Performances of Mina Bergson
  • Opening Part and Whole
  • Hyper-Ritual
  • Gnostics, Spooks, and Hollywood Spiritualism
  • Concluding Part
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
• Chapter 3: Performing Nonhuman Language: ‘Humaneity’ in Ron Athey’s Gifts of the Spirit: Automatic Writing
  • The Transcendental Computer: Towards an Artificial Philosophy
  • Turing and AI: Linguistic Imitation as a Criterion for Thinking
  • Athey and Automatic Writing: Depersonalizing Autobiography
  • Conclusion: Performing the Transcendental Computer
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
• Chapter 4: Art and Philosophy: New Solidarities
  • New Solidarities between Art and Philosophy: A Brief Introduction
  • 1. Axioms of Separation
  • 2. Objects: A Consolidated Presentation of Thought (Alice and Anne-Françoise Together)
  • 3. When Undulation Disarms Immanence: The Role of Operators
  • 4. The Question on Non-Art, the Role of the Operators
  • 5. Generative Indeterminacy
  • Glossary – Alice Lucy Rekab and Anne-Françoise Schmid
  • Notes
• Chapter 5: Done Dying: Thinking alongside Every House Has a Door
  • Prologue: Begin from Bewilderment
  • Part 1: Thinking alongside Every house has a door
  • Interlude
  • Part 2: Techniques of Not-Knowing
  • Part 3: Extinction Is Missing
  • Interlude
  • Part 4: The Last Humanity
  • Part 5: A Fractal Choreography
  • Part 6: How It Ends [The house of philosophy is in ruins]
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
• Chapter 6: Beyond Judgement: Non-philosophy and Arts Intervention for People Living with Dementia
  • What Is Dementia?
  • Identity and Memory
  • Forgotten Futures and the City – An Arts Intervention Project for People Living with Dementia in Liverpool (Case Study).
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
• Chapter 7: Towards a New Genealogy of Performance Philosophy: Georges Bataille, General Economy, and Quantum-Mechanical Complementarity
  • Introduction
  • Complementarity, a Possibly Apocryphal Story
  • Complementarity, Little Bundles
  • Complementarity, a New Constant of Nature
  • Complementarity, the Right Spiral Hole
  • Complementarity, Through the Flight of Every Object from Me
  • Complementarity, the Return of Mobile, Fragmentary, Unknowable Reality
  • Complementarity, from Love to Light Waves
  • Complementarity, This Impossible . . .
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
• Chapter 8: Non-art and Other Non-philosophical Relations: An Essay on Fugitive Plasticity
  • Creative Assembly
  • Wonder Touch
  • Lived Thought
  • Walking as a Way of Wondering
  • In coda
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
• Chapter 9: Laruelle Prefers Heresy to Revolution: From Non-philosophy to Live Art
  • Laruelle and Reverend Billy on Heresy and Revolution
  • Notes
• Chapter 10: The Generative Tone: Musical Disruptions of Philosophy’s Tissue
  • Introduction: Musical Organization or Tissue
  • Structure
  • Instructions for Reading/Listening/Reverberating
  • Soundtrack Part One: 1349, Revelations of the Black Flame
  • Music and Doubling of the Real
  • Soundtrack Part Two: 1349, Revelations of the Black Flame
  • Speculative Sounds
  • Soundtrack Part Three: 1349, Revelations of the Black Flame
  • The Geometry of a Ghost
  • Soundtrack Part Four: 1349, Revelations of the Black Flame
  • Conclusion
  • Soundtrack Part Five: 1349, Revelations of the Black Flame
  • Notes
• Index
• About the Contributors