In general, this essay draws on the superimposition of François Laruelle on the thought of Rem Koolhaas and urbanism made by Jeremy Lecomte, “The Anonymous City: From Modern Standardisation to Generic Models.” (Mphil Cultural Studies Thesis, Goldsmiths University of London, 2014) ➝; and AbdouMaliq Simone and Morten Nielsen, “The Generic City: Examples from Jakarta, Indonesia, and Maputo, Mozambique.” in In Penny Harvey, Casper Bruun Jensen, Atsuro Morita (eds.) Infrastructures and Social Complexity: A Routledge Companion, eds. Penny Harvey, Casper Bruun Jensen, and Atsuro Morita (London and New York: Routledge, 2016), 128–140.
Alexander R. Galloway Laruelle Against the Digital (Minneeapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014), xxiv.
Rem Koolhaas, “Programmatic Lava.” In Rem Koolhaas, OMA, and Bruce Mau, S, M, L. XL, (New York: The Monachelli Press, 1995), 1210.
François Laruelle, “The Generic as Predicate and Constant: Non-Philosophy and Materialism.” In The Speculative Turn, eds. Levi Bryant, Nick Srnicek and Graham Harman (Melbourne, Australia: re.Press, 2011): 237–256, 238.
Ibid., 239.
Rem Koolhaas, “The Generic City.” In Ibid. Koolhaas, OMA, and Mau, 1248.
François Laruelle Dictionary of Non-philosophy, trans. Taylor Adkins (Minneapolis: Univocal Publishing, 2013), 109.
Ibid., 109.
Ibid., 108–109.
Keith Tilford, “Generalized Transformations and Technologies of Investigation: Laruelle, Art, and the Scientific Model.” In Superpositions: Laruelle and the Humanities, eds. Rocco Gangle and Julius Greve (London and New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017), 149–150, 150.
Great Leap Forward: the Harvard Project on the City Volume 1, eds. Rem Koolhaas, et al. (Koln: Taschen, 2001), 27.
Ibid., Koolhaas, “The Generic City,” 1255.
Ibid., 1251.
Ibid., 1263.
François Laruelle, Photofiction, a Non-Standard Aesthetics, trans. Drew S. Burk (Minneapolis: Univocal Publishing, 2012), 23.
Ibid., 78.
Ibid., 3–4.
Ibid. Koolhaas, “The Generic City,” 1253–4.
Ibid., 1262.
Rem Koolhaas, “Lagos.” In Mutations, eds. Rem Koolhaas , Stefano Boeri, Sanford Kwinter, Nadia Tazi, and Hans Ulrich Obrist (Barcelona: Actar, 2001), 650–721, 653.
Jean Attali, “The Roman System, or the Generic in All Times and Tenses.” In Ibid., 20–29, 21.
For “radical solitude,” also known as “radical misfortune,” see Ibid. Laruelle, Dictionary of Non-philosophy, 94–5, 140–141.
AbdouMaliq Simone, “Urbanity and Generic Blackness,” Theory Culture & Society 33, 7–8 (2016), 183–203, 183.
Ibid. Laruelle, Dictionary of Non-philosophy, 95.
Ibid. Simone, 186.
Ibid. Simone, 187.
Ibid. Simone and Nielsen, 128–140.
Ibid. Simone, 188, and Ibid. Simone and Nielsen, 128–140.
Tom McGlynn, “Toward a Generic Aesthetics: A Non-Philosophy of Art, “&&&Journal (May 29, 2015), ➝.
Rocco Gangle and Julius Greve, “Introduction: Superposing Non-Standard Philosophy and Humanities Discourse.” In Ibid. Gangle and Greve, 1–18, 9.
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