Embarking on the theoretical journey of Francois Laruelle’s ‘non-philosophy’, Katerina Kolozova has provoked us to challenge philosophical thought’s colonization of the real; instead she has urged us to approach the subject (amongst other concepts), not as a construed figure or even map of positions that can only think itself, but rather as a radical concept, ‘an instance’ that can enable thought to align with the real, instead of absorbing it in the totality of any system of linguistic representation and/or meaning.