Jeremy R. Smith

In a Theory Session presentation I gave in 2020 with my department, I conceived of an invariant, soterio-logical parallelism, so I think this might be useful to return to.

I wonder what another text on non-theology would be like if it took as occasions Scholem, Eliade, Rosenzweig, Corbin, and Hans Jonas. Not so much in the vein of Laruelle’s non-Christology and future mysticism or Grelet’s non-religious gnosis, but maybe through the lens of redemption.

This is surreal to me.

Translation of François Laruelle, “The Mediterranean as an Epistemological Problem” (1998) The Mediterranean as an Epistemological ProblemFrançois LaruelleFrom Aire régionale Méditerranée, the Congrès mondial de sociologie, UNESCO (Montréal: Canada, 2001), 229-234.Presentation made durin…

2. Laruelle, The Mediterranean as an Epistemological Problem

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Translation of François Laruelle, “The Future Artist: On an art that will not have taken place” (2003) The Future Artist: On an art that will have not taken placeFrançois LaruellePost-scriptum 2 (February 2003)Translated by Jeremy R. Smith (February 2026)PDF Marginality and MessianityLet’s beg…

Couple of recent blog translations:
1. Laruelle, The Future Artist: On an art that will have not taken place

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En-Joui Your Symptom: On Non-Psychoanalysis and the Philo-Analytic Complex The transcript for my presentation with Lacan in Scotland regarding the work of François Laruelle and my translation of his 1995 book, Theory of Strangers: Science of People, Democracy, and Non-Psycho...

Yesterday, I presented on my research and my translation of Laruelle’s work with Lacan in Scotland. I’ve uploaded the transcript online, and the video should be available soon. You can read it here:

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Today is the publication day of my translation of François Laruelle’s Theory of Strangers: Science of People, Democracy, and Non-Psychoanalysis, published by Edinburgh University Press. I’m very excited to see readers engage with the book!

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Hugely excited to welcome Jeremy Smith to @LacanInScotland next Thursday to talk about Laruelle and Lacan. The event is free and open to all. Please join us.

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If you’re interested in attending, register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/en-joui-yo...

Don’t really post here often, apologies. If you do follow me, I am giving a talk on Lacan and Laruelle with Lacan in Scotland this Thursday at 2pm EST! It relies on my translation of Theory of Strangers and deals with the third chapter!

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One month away until publication of my translation of Laruelle’s Theory of Strangers with @edinburghup.bsky.social !
Use promo code, NEW30, during checkout to receive 30% off on your preorder! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-theory-...

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Let me know if this works for you!

I’m moving back to NYC next summer.

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Pre-order my translation of François Laruelle’s Theory of Strangers, published by Edinburgh University Press this January!
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Breaking some radio silence to show a diagram I’ve been working on that visually represents the process of non-philosophy. There’s a lot of work to clean up here, but it’s a start.

Pairing it with Ballard’s “Build Up” and Glaspell’s “A Jury of Her Peers” as the introductory short stories for Weird Fiction and Mystery, fused well in TC&TC.

Acéphalous, Vintagia, and New Thresholds Updates, reflections, and future directions from the Acid Horizon collective

Acéphalous update and more: splitinfinities.substack.com/p/acephalous...

Next term, I’m pairing Miéville’s The City and The City with Kafka’s The Trial, Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress, Dick’s DADES, and Calvino’s Invisible Cities (with some of his selected short stories).

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AHRC's non-philosophy course with @en-demic.bsky.social
begins in about two weeks. Register now to get the syllabus and the readings.

Upcoming Course: François Laruelle and Non-Philosophy (Cluster 1): Rebellious Postulations

Sessions begin Wednesday, October 8 at 7PM EST.

Register here:
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There’s still time to enroll in François Laruelle and Non-Philosophy (Cluster 1): Rebellious Postulations with Jeremy R. Smith. The 4-week seminar begins October 8—secure your spot now and explore what non-philosophy can do.

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All I know is that the incoherence of these positions can be hurtful to those who espouse genuine anti-fascist values. Finding that ground that alters this universalizing process of atomization will have to face up against the radicalization of the pundits.

I don’t have any programmatic perspective or whatever; however, one can draw lessons from this as the further fracturing point of the US right, and we are entering into somewhat uncharted waters with these incoherent positions becoming more common place.

I find this to be a paper tiger because at this moment, the figurehead emboldening the movement is recognizing and making public his mortality. Nobody at this moment has the charismatic spirit to unify all these tendencies.

What might result after this infighting and the impending death of Trump is a universalized alienation akin to, if not outright being the atomization that reflects the loneliness epidemic and the analysis of how easy it is for reactionary attitudes to grip people will continue interminably.

The incoherence of alt-right political positions - to simultaneously hold identifiable fascist and loosely principled anti-fascist values for aggressive ahumanistic tendencies - renders any possible post-Trump coalition building a paper tiger.

The Acid Horizon Research Commons launches today at 3 PM EST. Meet your instructors for the first session of Fall 2025: Grafton Tanner and Jeremy R. Smith. See our site for scholarship details and join a class this weekend.https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main

Happy to share a snippet of the course content, subject to change:

TOMORROW we launch the Acid Horizon Research Commons, our new para-academic platform for philosophy, politics, and more. In the clip: Jeremy R. Smith on François Laruelle’s non-philosophy. Join Jeremy as he asks, 'What can non-philosophy do?' www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/ahrc-main