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Cyclonopedia - Complicity with Anonymous Materials (Paperback, New)
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Cyclonopedia - Complicity with Anonymous Materials (Paperback, New)
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At once a horror fiction, a work of speculative theology, an atlas
of demonology, a political samizdat and a philosophic grimoire,
CYCLONOPEDIA is work of theory-fiction on the Middle East, where
horror is restlessly heaped upon horror. Reza Negarestani bridges
the appalling vistas of contemporary world politics and the War on
Terror with the archeologies of the Middle East and the natural
history of the Earth itself. CYCLONOPEDIA is a middle-eastern
Odyssey, populated by archeologists, jihadis, oil smugglers, Delta
Force officers, heresiarchs, corpses of ancient gods and other
puppets. The journey to the Underworld begins with petroleum basins
and the rotting Sun, continuing along the tentacled pipelines of
oil, and at last unfolding in the desert, where monotheism meets
the Earth's tarry dreams of insurrection against the Sun. 'The
Middle East is a sentient entity - it is alive ' concludes renegade
Iranian archeologist Dr. Hamid Parsani, before disappearing under
mysterious circumstances. The disordered notes he leaves behind
testify to an increasingly deranged preoccupation with oil as the
'lubricant' of historical and political narratives. A young
American woman arrives in Istanbul to meet a pseudonymous online
acquaintance who never arrives. Discovering a strange manuscript in
her hotel room, she follows up its cryptic clues only to discover
more plot-holes, and begins to wonder whether her friend was a
fictional quantity all along. Meanwhile, as the War on Terror
escalates, the US is dragged into an asymmetrical engagement with
occultures whose principles are ancient, obscure, and saturated in
oil. It is as if war itself is feeding upon the warmachines,
leveling cities into the desert, seducing the aggressors into the
dark heart of oil ...
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