Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Andrasek, Alisa, Contributor.

Blas, Zach, Contributor.

Bratton, Benjamin, Contributor.

Doherty, Melanie, Contributor.

Galloway, Alexander R., Contributor.

Keller, Ed, Editor.

Mackay, Robin, Contributor.

Marshall, Kate, Contributor.

Masciandaro, Nicola, Editor.

Maunz, Lionel, Contributor.

Mellamphy, Dan, Contributor.

Mellamphy, Nandita, Contributor.

Negarestani, Reza, Contributor.

Sciscione, Anthony, Contributor.

Tekten, Öykü, Contributor.

Thacker, Eugene, Editor.

Wark, McKenzie, Contributor.

Woodward, Ben, Contributor.

Library Stack, distributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical theory.

Genre:

Discursive works

Essay Collection.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified], punctum books, 2012.

Summary:

""Anything can happen for some weird reason; yet also, without any reason, nothing at all can happen." - Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials 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" - 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."-- provided by distributor.

Notes:

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