Post-History
Film by Bruno Stecconi  |  music by Betti Robotti  |  Reading by Drew S. Burk

An experimental film set to Vilém Flusser's essay "Our Images" from Post-History.

Michel Serres Wins 2013 Dan David Prize

Michel Serres, Rennes, 2011. Photograph by Pymouss

"Prof. Michel Serres has been professor of philosophy at Clermont-Ferrand, Vincennes, Paris since 1969, has been a full professor of the history of science at Stanford University since 1984, and was elected to the French Academy in 1990. Through his explorations of the parallel developments of scientific, philosophical, and literary trends, Michel Serres has built a reputation as one of modern France's most gifted and original thinkers.

Michel Serres is a French master thinker of the old school, with an intimate knowledge of the western tradition in philosophy and science, from its origins to the present, a passionate curiosity about the present and the willingness—and the ability—to enter productively into discussion of a vast range of current questions. His career began with an enormous and penetrating investigation of Leibniz’s use of mathematical models, which continues to be a standard work, and rapidly developed into a series of inquiries: into the history and nature of mathematics, epistemology, moral philosophy and humanity’s relations with the natural world."

Source: dandavidprize.org

Lecture on the Generic Orientation of Non-Standard Aesthetics

Lecture on The Orientation of Non-Standard Aesthetics by François Laruelle,
at the Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota. November 17, 2012.
filmed by Cory Strand

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The Concept of an Ordinary Ethics or Ethics Founded in Man
by François Laruelle
Translated by Taylor Adkins

Ordinary ethics: the formula is ambiguous and perhaps must be abandoned. It does not designate the morality inscribed in everydayness, which is supposed to be that of man in opposition to a philosophical ethics. On the contrary, it is opposed to these two ethics taken together: it is opposed to their disjunction and their community. Philosophical ethics has always already decided what an ethics of everyday, common, vulgar or gregarious man would be, i.e. an ethics of mores; the philosophical is the disjunction of the common and the philosophical. The ordinary is something different, another thought which is not directly philosophical but does not deny philosophy: here it designates the point of identity and reality that renders the articulation of the philosophical and the common possible, a de jure identity prior to their disjunction and thus prior to their synthesis and presupposed by both.

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Workshop II: Introduction to the Concept of Non-Photography
Introduction to the work of François Laruelle and his text The Concept of Non-Photography.

This lecture exists in at least three versions. The first version was an experimental performative attempt at lecturing to the public in a “universe black” poetic manner. It was recorded three days before the workshop as an attempt at poetic “blindsight”. Read More

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Workshop I: What is a non-workshop?
Introduction to the work of François Laruelle and the project of non-philosophy.

The first of two workshops on Laruelle's Non-Standard Lenses conducted at Midway Contemporary Art by Univocal's director, Drew S. Burk as part of the ongoing event series, Autumn of Non-Standard Evenings. Burk discusses the work of the French thinker, François Laruelle, and his project of non-philosophy now referred to as non-standard philosophy.

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Reading from "Struggle and Utopia at the End Times of Philosophy"
Reading by Drew S. Burk, at Midway Contemporary Art, October 4th, 2012

Biogea
Biogea by Michel Serres  |  video by Jason Wagner  |  music by Zammuto Yay

Letterpress Theory
Variations on the Body by Michel Serres  |  video by Jason Wagner  |  music by The Books - There is no There

A short video illustrating Univocal's book making process during the production of Variations on the Body by Michel Serres. The book was created at Univocal's atelier in Minneapolis with a first edition of 500 copies. The books are 100% archival, the cover paper is 110# Crane's Lettra Fluorescent and the text paper is Mohawk Carrera White Linen.