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Brassier - Laruelle and the Reality of Abstraction (Chapter 5 from Laruelle and Non-Philosophy)
"Laruelle and the Reality of Abstraction (Chapter 5 from Laruelle and Non-Philosophy)" belongs to Brassier's realism line, where abstraction, truth, and rational critique are used to pressure-test the archive's more charismatic inheritances.
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These pages matter because they show one major route by which the archive is forced into clearer argumentative language. Brassier's realism turns the afterlife of Land and the CCRU into a problem of truth, abstraction, and rational critique rather than scene myth or stylistic intensity alone.
The mechanism is pressure through philosophy. Sellars, Laruelle, Badiou, nihilism, and realism all become ways of testing whether concepts survive once they are detached from their original scene charisma and forced into stricter conceptual articulation.
That matters because this section is about philosophical afterlives, not only loyalty or rejection. Brassier keeps the archive alive precisely by refusing to leave its concepts in their original rhetorical atmosphere.
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Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 14
Laruelle and the Reality of Abstraction i i 3 at that point where he is still providing a philosophical ration ale for his dissatisfaction with philosophy’s modus operandi,24 by striving to seize this moment of absolute scission, which he identifies as the hidden wellspring of absolute transcending, and by trying to think it independently not only of the form of the object, but also of objectivating transcendence.
Definition · paragraph 6
Laruelle and the Reality of Abstraction 105 mate any ontological inference, either from the being of appear ance to the being of the in-itself, or from being-in-itself to the being of appearance. It is the nature of the difference between the reality proper to appearances and the reality proper to the in-itself that is at issue.
Definition · paragraph 10
Laruelle and the Reality of Abstraction i 09 given somehow, but in a way that is independent of its objectiva- tion. Consequently, there are two dimensions of givenness: one through which the phenomenon is objectivated, and one through which the phenomenon at once precipitates and transcends its own objectivation.
Definition · paragraph 5
io 4 Laruelle and Non-Philosophy here), and the transcendental reality of things-in-themselves, which exist independently of being represented.
History · paragraph 22
Francois Laruelle, ‘The Generic as Predicate and as Constant: Non Philosophy and Materialism’, translated by Taylor Adkins, in The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism, edited by Levi Bryant, Graham Harman, Nick Srnicek (Melbourne: re-press, 2011), p.
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