Launch of POST-EUROPE
by Yuk Hui
with Yuk Hui in conversation with Pieter Lemmens at 6.30pm
Saturday July 12 @ San Serriffe
With the unstoppable advance of global capitalism, the Heimatlosigkeit (homelessness) which twentieth-century European philosophy spoke of—and which Heidegger declared had become the ‘destiny of the world’—is set to become ever more pathological in its consequences. But rather than dreaming of an impossible return to Heimat, Yuk Hui argues that today thinking must start out from the standpoint of becoming-homeless.
Drawing on the philosophies of Gilbert Simondon, Jacques Derrida, Bernard Stiegler, and Jan Patočka alongside the thought of Kitaro Nishida, Keiki Nishitani, and Mou Zongsan among others, Yuk Hui envisions a project of a post-European thinking. If Asia and Europe are to devise new modes of confronting capitalism, technology, and planetarisation, this must take place neither through a neutralisation of differences nor a return to tradition, but through an individuation of thinking between East and West.
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Join Yuk Hui @digitalobjects for a talk and launch of his recently released title Post-Europe via @sequencepress@urbanomicdotcom
Tuesday, April 22, 7pm
Miguel Abreu Gallery @miguelabreugallery
88 Eldridge St., NYC
Today, we increasingly live in a state of becoming-homeless, while our homelessness also produces a desire for some form of homecoming, as is evident in the rise of conservative and neoreactionary movements the world over.
This sense of homelessness, which twentieth-century European philosophers spoke of—and which Heidegger declared had become the “destiny of the world”—has become a prevailing condition of globalized capitalism, and is set to turn ever more pathological in its consequences. But rather than dreaming of an impossible return to Heimat, Yuk Hui presents a rethinking of political and epistemological possibilities, and argues that today thinking must start out from the standpoint of becoming-homeless.
This is the most compelling book I have read this year. Post-Europe provides acute insights into our contemporary predicament, transcending the discipline of philosophy and offering a rethinking of political and epistemological possibilities. Framed by an assertion that a sense of homelessness is the prevailing condition of globalized capitalism, Hui invokes Gilbert Simondon’s conception of individuation as a way forward, in which incompatibility of thought crystallizes a restructuring of the systems we have recourse to. I found it particularly valuable in this decidedly antediluvian moment. Highly recommend.
In Memoriam: François Laruelle (1937 – 2024)
It is with sadness and sorrow that we announce the loss of François Laruelle, who died on October 28, at the age of 87.
It was Laruelle’s radical and fundamentally experimental work that served as the impetus to launch Sequence Press in 2010.
Our thoughts are with Anne-Françoise Schmid, his wife and fellow philosopher, daughters Marlène and Lorraine, and the many people who were inspired and nurtured by his work.
Laruelle was Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris X: Nanterre. An inventive philosopher and prolific writer, he developed the concept of ‘non-philosophy’ over his long career, as well as ‘non-standard thought’ in his later work. He authored over twenty-five books and countless articles, including Beyond the Power Principle (1978); A Biography of Ordinary Man (1985); Theory of Strangers: Science of Men, Democracy, Non-Psychoanalysis (1995); Principles of Non-Philosophy (1996); Introduction to Non-Marxism (2000); Struggle and Utopia at the End Times of Philosophy (2004); Non-Standard Philosophy: Generic, Quantum, Philo-Fiction (2010); Anti-Badiou: The Introduction of Maoism in Philosophy (2011); General Theory of Victims (2012); Christo-Fiction: The Ruins of Athens and Jerusalem (2014); In The Last Humanity: The New Ecological Science (2015); Clandestine Theology for Those Without Religion: A Confession of Faith of the Non-Philosopher (2019); and The New Technological Spirit (2020).
On his ‘Biography of Ordinary Man’, Laruelle wrote: This is a treatise on human Solitudes. A rigorous science of men does not yet exist. To found it is a necessary task and a possible undertaking. Necessary: the Sciences of Man are not sciences, nor do they have man as their object; they are devoid of theoretical rigor and of humanity. As for philosophy, its anthropology and its humanism, along with their critiques, constitute the oblivion of “ordinary” human essence in the name of the Greek prejudices of Being and Logos. Possible: on condition of going back to the primitive unity of science and man, to the possibility of an immanent description of the singular existence of the individual.
New York City:
Tonight at 7 pm, in Brooklyn, the films of Frans van de Staak are screened in the US for the first time in decades. Shortly before van de Staak’s untimely death in 2001, Jean-Marie Straub called him one of the three most important filmmakers alive (along with Jean-Claude Rousseau and Peter Nestler), and the only true heir to Dziga Vertov. Since his passing, his films have barely been screened (just a few screenings in Moscow, Barcelona, Mexico, Gand… over 23 years). In two different programs at BAM tonight at 7 and 9 pm, you will have the rarest of occasions to discover the humorous and rigorously speculative aesthetics of one of the missing links in the history of cinema, along with the Huillet/Straub film that most directly displays van de Staak’s influence on their understanding of how a text could be filmed.
“Of course the film is finished, but the picture still has to be made in the heads of the people watching it. It is like a paiting. A painting has a time slot of experience for the spectator. It takes some seconds, even if you don’t realize it, before you perceive the painting. In a moving picture this effect is yet much stronger.
To encompass the richness of reality, that is what I strive at.”
(Frans van de Staak, from the promotional booklet of People Passing Through Me in an Endless Procession)
Read newly translated texts by and on van de Staak at /texts
Read a close analysis on Straub/Huillet’s Toute révolution est un coup de dés at /every-revolution.html
Post-Europe
By @digitalobjects@sequencepress
With the unstoppable advance of global capitalism, the Heimatlosigkeit (homelessness) which twentieth-century European philosophers spoke of—and which Heidegger declared had become the “destiny of the world”—is set to become ever more pathological in its consequences. But rather than dreaming of an impossible return to Heimat, Yuk Hui argues that today thinking must start out from the standpoint of becoming-homeless. In Post-Europe, Hui sets out a project of post-European thinking not through a neutralization of differences nor a return to tradition, but through an individuation of thinking between East and West.
* bookshelf in bio *
started with a typo, ended up in a book—
i had the absolute wonder working with the Jimmy Raskin @raaaskin .
The text that I wrote for his show“Cliché Garden” at Miguel Abreu Gallery is published in his artist zine catalog.
thank you jimmy for leading me to find my philosopher-poet streams
✨POETRY BLUSHES BUT NEVER RUNS AWAY✨
beautiful design by Borui Jiang @rgborui
much 🤍🤍 to matchmaking angels @lbourgine and @emememirii
and the support of
@miguelabreugallery@sequencepress
