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Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium edited by Ed Keller, Nicola Masciandaro, & Eugene Thacker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keller, Edward., Editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy--Congresses.
- Philosophy.
- Negarestani, Reza. Cyclonopedia--Congresses.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 pages) : illustrations; PDF, digital file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Brooklyn, NY punctum books 2012
- Brooklyn, NY. : Punctum Books 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Annotation 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:
- 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,Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Open Book Publishers website; viewed on 2020-00- )
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Directory of open access books.
- Description based on print version record.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- OCLC:
- 945782695
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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