ABSTRACT
Francois Laruelle is a great user of the word "radical". Apart from the basic premise of his non-philosophical project being, from almost the very beginning, an exercise in radically immanent thought, the term appears in numerous contexts: "radical liveds", "radically immanent phenomenology", "radical subjectivities", "radical atheist", "radical fiction", "radical experience", and the "radically immanent structure. Philosophy, according to Laruelle, not only anthropomorphises the Real, it anthropomorphises man too. Philosophy constantly harasses the human, according to Laruelle, Alain Badiou's Maoist philosophy being only the latest such attack – "disquieting when we think what it might have in store for humans". In Principles of Non-Philosophy Laruelle speaks of a philosophical "ventriloquism" of the Real. Strictly speaking, it is, therefore, irrelevant whether or not a certain extension of non-philosophical concepts goes too far, whether or not it enters into a linear state of nonsense or vacuity: it is the non-linear, extensive practice, as gesture, as animal line, that is of value.
