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- Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium
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- 2012
- Published by: Punctum Books
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Essays, articles, artworks, and documents taken from and inspired by the symposium on Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials, which took place in 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” – 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.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-viii
- A Brief History of Geotrauma
- pp. 1-38
- An Inhuman Fiction of Forces
- pp. 39-44
- Queerness, Openness
- pp. 101-114
- What is a Hermeneutic Light?
- pp. 159-172
- Black Infinity; or, Oil Discovers Humans
- pp. 173-180
- Gourmandized in the Abattoir of Openness
- pp. 181-192
- Receipt of Malice
- pp. 255-278
- Symposium Photographs
- pp. 279-286
- Notes on the Figure of the Cyclone
- pp. 287-299
Additional Information
ISBN
9780615600468
MARC Record
OCLC
945782695
Pages
310
Launched on MUSE
2020-06-26
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-SA
Copyright
2012