In the former part of this section (4), I am going to interpret an entanglement or superposition between philosophy and photography in Laurelle’s non-philosophical discourse, by addressing American photographer, William Eugene Smith (1918～1978), who thematized patients of Minamata disease in his photographic works in the early 1970’s. In the latter part, this essay grapples with the question why both Laruelle and Izutsu as philosopher have been so much interested in the discourse of gnosis, revolt and insurrection
