This is the first audio chapter in a hyper-book devoted to a reading of François Laruelle’s A BIOGRAPHY OF ORDINARY MAN. I plan to make the first book-length Reader’s Guide, in Hyper-Book form, to a book by François Laruelle, A BIOGRAPHY OF ORDINARY MAN, which was translated into English only recently, in 2018. I think it was translated at the right time, in a certain sense. Although the book came out in French 36 years ago, in 1985, it has acquired a new contemporaneity, in relation to various types of philosophical work and projects that have come up recently, notably in relation to the turn to the "Absolute" that was instantiated in Deleuze and Guattari's WHAT IS PHILOSOPHY? and continued in major works in dialogue with this turn: François Laruelle's TETRALOGOS, Alain Badiou's IMMANENCE OF TRUTHS, and Slavoj Zizek's SEX AND THE FAILED ABSOLUTE.