Laruelle by Smith Anthony P.;

Author:Smith, Anthony P.;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: 2016-06-13T04:00:00+00:00

5

Ethics, or Universalizing the Stranger-Subject

Generic deracination

Alexander Galloway's Laruelle: Against the Digital provides a potent explanation of the difference between politics and ethics for Laruelle, as we saw in chapter 3. The political is often taken to be the name for the mechanism of decision, and in this way philosophy = politics (and we may read this equation both from right to left and from left to right). Thus, politics is about world-making in the sense of the French word for globalization (mondialisation) but also in the sense of the capturing and englobing of humans within the decisional parameters of that world. Galloway sums up the difference between politics and Laruelle's understanding of ethics, writing:

In any case, the ethical is a question of the withdrawal of the law. What replaces the law is not so much a new super-law, a new law of laws, but the absence of all mundane commandments in favor of a single principle of unification. For this reason the ethical is best understood as a kind of virtualization, because it withholds decision in favor of a superposition of indistinction. And this is why, while there are many possible forms of political organization, there is only one kind of ethical organization – communism – a truth promulgated by Jesus just as much as by Marx.1

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