Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials by Negarestani, Reza
Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials by Negarestani, Reza

Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials

At once a horror fiction, a work of speculative theology, an atlas of demonology, a political samizdat...
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Author: Reza Negarestani
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Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials by Negarestani, Reza

Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials

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Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials by Negarestani, Reza

Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials

$35.52
Author: Reza Negarestani
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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At once a horror fiction, a work of speculative theology, an atlas of demonology, a political samizdat and a philosophic grimoire, CYCLONOPEDIA is work of theory-fiction on the Middle East, where horror is restlessly heaped upon horror. Reza Negarestani bridges the appalling vistas of contemporary world politics and the War on Terror with the archeologies of the Middle East and the natural history of the Earth itself. CYCLONOPEDIA is a middle-eastern Odyssey, populated by archeologists, jihadis, oil smugglers, Delta Force officers, heresiarchs, corpses of ancient gods and other puppets. The journey to the Underworld begins with petroleum basins and the rotting Sun, continuing along the tentacled pipelines of oil, and at last unfolding in the desert, where monotheism meets the Earth's tarry dreams of insurrection against the Sun. 'The Middle East is a sentient entity - it is alive!' concludes renegade Iranian archeologist Dr. Hamid Parsani, before disappearing under mysterious circumstances. The disordered notes he leaves behind testify to an increasingly deranged preoccupation with oil as the 'lubricant' of historical and political narratives. A young American woman arrives in Istanbul to meet a pseudonymous online acquaintance who never arrives. Discovering a strange manuscript in her hotel room, she follows up its cryptic clues only to discover more plot-holes, and begins to wonder whether her friend was a fictional quantity all along. Meanwhile, as the War on Terror escalates, the US is dragged into an asymmetrical engagement with occultures whose principles are ancient, obscure, and saturated in oil. It is as if war itself is feeding upon the warmachines, leveling cities into the desert, seducing the aggressors into the dark heart of oil ...

Author: Reza Negarestani
Publisher: Re.Press
Published: 08/30/2008
Pages: 268
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d
ISBN: 9780980544008

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