Essays, articles, artworks, and documents taken from and inspired
by the symposium on Reza Negarestani's Cyclonopedia: Complicity
with Anonymous Materials, which took place on 11 March 2011 at The
New School. Hailed by novelists, philosophers, artists,
cinematographers, and designers, Cyclonopedia is a key work in the
emerging domains of speculative realism and theory-fiction. The
text has attracted a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary audience,
provoking vital debate around the relationship between philosophy,
geopolitics, geophysics, and art. At once a work of speculative
theology, a political samizdat, and a philosophic grimoire,
Cyclonopedia is a Deleuzo-Lovecraftian middle-eastern Odyssey
populated by archeologists, jihadis, oil smugglers, Delta Force
officers, heresiarchs, and the corpses of ancient gods. Playing out
the book's own theory of creativity - "a confusion in which no
straight line can be traced or drawn between creator and created -
original inauthenticity" (191) - this multidimensional collection
both faithfully interprets the text and realizes it as a loving,
perforated host of fresh heresies. The volume includes an incisive
contribution from the author explicating a key figure of the novel:
the cyclone. CONTENTS: Robin Mackay, "A Brief History of Geotrauma"
- McKenzie Wark, "An Inhuman Fiction of Forces" - Benjamin H.
Bratton, "Root the Earth: On Peak Oil Apophenia" - Alisa Andrasek,
"Dustism" - Zach Blas, "Queerness, Openness" - Melanie Doherty,
"Non-Oedipal Networks and the Inorganic Unconscious" - Anthony
Sciscione, "Symptomatic Horror: Lovecraft's 'The Colour Out of
Space'" - Kate Marshall, "Cyclonopedia as Novel (a meditation on
complicity as inauthenticity)" - Alexander R. Galloway, "What is a
Hermeneutic Light?" - Eugene Thacker, "Black Infinity; or, Oil
Discovers Humans" - Nicola Masciandaro, "Gourmandized in the
Abattoir of Openness" - Dan Mellamphy & Nandita Biswas
Mellamphy, "Phileas Fogg, or the Cyclonic Passepartout: On the
Alchemical Elements of War" - Ben Woodard, "The Untimely (and
Unshapely) Decomposition of Onto-Epistemological Solidity:
Negarestani's Cyclonopedia as Metaphysics" - Ed Keller, ." . .Or,
Speaking with the Alien, a Refrain. . ." - Lionel Maunz, "Receipt
of Malice" - Oyku Tekten, "Symposium Photographs" - Reza
Negarestani, "Notes on the Figure of the Cyclone" punctumbooks.com
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