From 5 - 7 April 2011, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, hosted a series of events launching the alliance between Urbanomic and Miguel Abreu's Sequence Press, and celebrating the publication of François Laurelle's The Concept of Non-Photography.

Tuesday April 5th, 7pm
Urbanomic/Sequence Press Launch, with Dexter Sinister

Urbanomic founder, Robin Mackay, and Dexter Sinister's David Reinfurt presented their respective recent activities as independent and experimental publishers. Mackay spoke about his notorious 'philosophical research and development' journal, Collapse, and, with Tobias Huber and Katherine Pickard, introduce the collaborative imprint, Urbanomic/Sequence Press. Reinfurt discussed Dexter Sinister's new The Bulletins of the Serving Library project and the end of Dot Dot Dot.

Wednesday April 6th, 7pm
François Laruelle and Non-Philosophy Symposium

'Non-philosophy' designates the new response, in a manner rendered possible and grounded, to that which must be called the 'labyrinth of philosophy.'

Tobias Huber (Editor, Urbanomic/Sequence Press): Non-Philosophy and the Axiomatization of Philosophy
Alexander Galloway (NYU): Laruelle, or The Secret
Dustin McWherter (PhD, Middlesex University, London): Non-Philosophy and the Kantian Legacy
Robin Mackay (Director, Urbanomic): The Combustion of Human Spontaneity: Non-Philosophy as Ultra-Althusserian
Anthony Paul Smith (University of Nottingham): What does religion have to do with a science of philosophy?

François Laruelle was in attendance for a Q&A with the participants and the audience.

Tobias Huber is co-editor of François Laruelle's forthcoming From Decision to Heresy: Introduction to Non-Philosophy (Urbanomic/Sequence, 2011) and the editor of Realismus Jetzt (Merve, 2011). He is a member of the editorial board of Urbanomic/Sequence Press.

Alexander R. Galloway is Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University. Galloway is the author of several books, including The Exploit: A Theory of Networks (Minnesota, 2007), cowritten with Eugene Thacker. He translated LaruelleÕs essay The Truth According to Hermes: Theorems on The Secret and Communication. Recently, he delivered a series of 5 lectures at Public School, New York entitled French Theory Today: Possible Futures, one of which was about Laruelle's work.

Dustin McWherter recently completed his PhD at Middlesex University, London with a thesis on Kant and Bhaskar. A number of his articles will appear in upcoming issues of the journals Kantian Review and Cosmos and History. He served as associate editor of Collapse Vol. III: Unknown Deleuze.

Robin Mackay is a philosopher and editor of the journal Collapse. He is director of Urbanomic and the collaborative Urbanomic/Sequence Press, as well as co-editor of From Decision to Heresy: Introduction to Non-Philosophy. He also translated Alain Badiou's Number and Numbers (Polity, 2008) and Laruelle's The Concept of Non-Photography (Urbanomic/Sequence Press, 2011).

Anthony Paul Smith, Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Nottingham and Research Fellow at DePaul University's Institute for Nature and Culture, is the translator of Laruelle's Future Christ: A Lesson in Heresy and co-translator of the forthcoming Principles of Non-Philosophy (Continuum, 2013). He is also co-editing Laruelle and Non-Philosophy (Edinburgh UP, 2012). His own work is split between the development of a philosophy of religion as non-theology and an attempt to conceive of a non-metaphysics of nature derived from a unified theory of philosophy and ecology.