Real is Radical

Jonathan Fardy is Assistant Professor of Art History at Idaho State University, USA. His research focuses on the relationship between aesthetics and theoretical practice. He is the author of Laruelle and Art: The Aesthetics of Non-Philosophy (Bloomsbury, 2020).

• 1. Introduction2. Stranger3. Struggle4. Impossibilization5. Fiction6. Metaphysics7. Conclusion

Jonathan Fardy’s The Real is Radical: Marx after Laruelle is probably the first comprehensive and systematic introduction to non-Marxism, an emerging field of Marxist theory radicalized through the methods of François Laruelle’s non-standard philosophy. Fardy’s approach is rigorous, analytic, and imaginative, opening exciting new avenues to approach Marx’s text by way of a method rid of the burden of the “principle of philosophical sufficiency” (Laruelle).