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He pioneered the genre of theoryfiction with his book cyclonopedia. Truly one of the strangest books i have ever finished. Yes, predictably i do detest to talk about that book, not only because in hindsight i think it fails to perform and reach the level of its ambitions, but also, because i started writing it sometime around 2002. Reza negarestani has written a book so dense with conceptsoil as an evil entity, soldiers gone rogue ala apocalypse now, disappearing authors who may or may not be terrorists, hapless tourists, french modern philosophy, ancient cults, gods who may be devils, decomposition, and sex, among hundreds of othersthat it resembles nothing so much as a literary version of one of those massive. Art, human capital, and the medium of contingency matthew poole. At once a horror fiction, a work of speculative theology, an atlas of demonology, a political samizdat and a. Reza negarestani is an iranian philosopher and writer who lives and works in the middle east. Were excerpting the novel in our anthology the weird, and reza is a contributor to. Complicity with anonymous materials anomaly paperback august 30, 2008. Contingency and complicity by reza negarestani from the. Contingency and complicity reza negarestani scribd.
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His other books include nonexistence, acidhuman project, gimmick. Essential reading from aimee heinemann atractivoquenobello. Contingency and complicity reza negarestani who is a contingent artist, an artist who embraces the thought of contingency in her approach to those materials that constitute and determine her work and artistic production. Complicity with anonymous materials, a 2008 novel published through re. May 23, 2018 today were looking at reza negarestani s dust enforcer, a chapter from cyclonopedia.
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Reza negarestani is an iranian philosopher best known for pioneering the genre of theoryfiction with his book cyclonopedia. Reza negarestani is an iranian philosopher and writer, known for pioneering the genre of theoryfiction with his book cyclonopedia which was published in 2008. His first novel, blood electric creation books, was acclaimed by dennis cooper, david bowie, among others. Reza negarestani born 1977 is an iranian philosopher and writer, known for pioneering the genre of theoryfiction with his book cyclonopedia which was published in 2008. Against this reza discussed poincares critique of the contingency of the. Hailed by novelists, philosophers, artists, cinematographers, and designers, cyclonopedia is a key work in the emerging domains of speculative realism and theoryfiction.
Engineering the world, crafting the mind nero editions. A chapter from cyclonopedia entitled the dust enforcer was excerpted, alongside more standard weird horror. The editors in order to think narration in a world that is devoid of any narrative necessity an expanding space into which all ideas of embodiments dissolve and an absolute time whose radical contingency aborts any necessary difference to which. He has also written for such journals and anthologies as collapse, angelaki and ctheory. Intelligence and spirit by reza negarestani goodreads. Complicity with anonymous materials anomaly 30aug2008. The medium of contingency urbanomic redactions 3 mackay, robin mackay, robin negarestani, reza ayache, elie poole, matthew. No summary can substitute for reading this excerpt from negarestani s cyclonopedia. Negarestani s preoccupations and matrix of sociohistorical emergence have given him a unique perspective on the middle east. Recursivity and contingency is simply an outstanding philosophical treatise on cybernetics that reopens the alltoo human image of technology today.
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