Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium. [electronic resource]

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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: 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, ". . .Or, Speaking with the Alien, a Refrain. . ." - Lionel Maunz, "Receipt of Malice" - �Oyk�u Tekten, "Symposium Photographs" - Reza Negarestani, "Notes on the Figure of the Cyclone"punctumbooks.com.

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- )