This Chinese edition of The Concept of Non-Photography 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”, 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).