TY  - BOOK
ED  - Keller, Edward
ED  - Masciandaro, Nicola
ED  - Thacker, Eugene
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.21983/P3.0017.1.00
ID  - OAPEN ID: 1004497
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 945782695
KW  - Reza Negarestani
KW  - theory-fiction
KW  - speculative realism
KW  - petropolitics
KW  - Cyclonopedia
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/68c22464-311d-424b-84dc-14f7dd6fc1fd/1004497.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/25598
PB  - punctum books
PP  - Brooklyn, NY
PY  - 2012
SN  - 9780615600468
TI  - Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposiumnull
ER  - 
