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urn:uuid:b4d68a6d-01fb-48f1-9f64-1fcdaaf1cdfd 03 15 9780615600468 00 EB E107 10 01 01 Leper Creativity Cyclonopedia Symposium 1 A01 Edward Keller 2 B01 Nicola Masciandaro 3 B01 Eugene Thacker 01 eng 00 310 03 23 Cultural Studies+Critical Theory 12 HPCF 10 PHI040000 23 Reza Negarestani 23 Literary Studies 23 theory-fiction 23 Posthumanism 23 speculative realism 23 petropolitics 23 Cyclonopedia 01 06 03 00 <p>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.</p> punctum books 01 punctum books 04 01 20121222 02 WORLD 06 15 9780615600468 WORLD 09 punctum books 20 01