Gilles Grelet
Gilles Grelet (French: [gʁəlɛ]) is a French theorist and former student of the French philosopher François Laruelle. He is the author of books and pamphlets which develop the main tenets of Laruellean non-philosophy. Following years of teaching, he lives as a sailor.
Thought
Grelet's theory of rebellion draws most conspicuously on the work of Guy Lardreau and Christian Jambet, whose 1976 jointly authored book L'Ange[1] marries Lacanian psychoanalysis and Maoism.
Aside from his published writings, Grelet has collaborated with French underground filmmakers Dojo Cinéma.[2]
He as co-founded, with François Laruelle and Ray Brassier a book collection, "we, ones without philosophy" (Nous, les sans philosophie),[3] published by L'Harmattan, where are edited the key authors whose thought takes place near Laruelle's non-standard matrix of theory (Jacques Fradin, Hugues Choplin, Patrick Fontaine, Patrice Guillamaud...).
Laruellean scholar Ekin Erkan details the Marxist/political praxis of an amalgam of François Laruelle's students, noting that "[i]t is mirthless to seek a revolutionary ethos in Laruelle – his critique solely provides us with the appropriate tools and [ . . . ] the ethics with which to problematize philosophy. Laruelle’s contemporaries, such as his anarcho-Maoist student, Gilles Grelet, have weaponized Laruelle to radicalize non-philosophy and pose an antiphenomenological practice."[4]
References
- Lardreau, Guy and Jambet, Christian, L'Ange : ontologie de la Révolution, tome 1 (Paris: Grasset, 1976).
- Une bonne manière de commencer, c'est de se donner un mythe, directed by Eric Banse, Laurent Bruel, Inigo Cabo, Hugues Choplin, Martin de Torcy, Rudolf di Stéfano, Gilles Grelet, Vincent Laisney, Clément Pelzer, Sol Suffern-Quirno. 2006.
- http://www.editions-harmattan.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=result
- Erkan, Ekin (Spring 2019). "François Laruelle. A Biography of Ordinary Man: On Authorities and Minorities" (PDF). Cincinnati Romance Review. 46: 119–23. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
Bibliography
Original works
- Déclarer la gnose. D'une guerre qui revient à la culture (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2002).
Co-authored works
- Citations pour le Président Sarkozy, with illustrations by Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa (Montreuil: Editions Matière, 2009).
- Le théorisme, méthode de salut public/Faible passion du réel, with illustrations by Juan Pérez Agirregoikoa (Montreuil: Editions Matière, 2006).
- Discipline hérétique, with François Laruelle, Danilo de Almeida and Tony Brachet (Paris: Kimé, 1999).
Edited works
- Théorie-rébellion. Un ultimatum (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2005). (Includes contributions from Jason Barker, Ray Brassier, Oliver Feltham and François Laruelle).