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From the First to the Second Non-Philosophy

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Non-Philosophy’s Generic Turn and its Quantum Realisation

Non-philosophy was and remains based on two main principles that appear to contradict each other. The first principle is that of the real specified in terms of a radical immanence, symbolised by the One rather than by Being. This radical immanence is distinct from the absolute or infinite immanence associated with Spinoza or Deleuze. The second is a principle of method or syntax, based on a duality said to be unilateral, not on a reciprocal or reversible unity. They have functioned together as ‘dualysis’, a method that is neither analysis nor synthesis…