Description |
297 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm |
Summary |
"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"--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."--Back cover |
Subject |
Masciandaro, Nicola, 1969- Cyclonopedia
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Science fiction -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Horror tales -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Supernatural -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Postmodernism -- Congresses.
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Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Author |
Keller, Ed (Architect)
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Masciandaro, Nicola, 1969-
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Thacker, Eugene.
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Masciandaro, Nicola, 1969-
Cyclonopedia. 2008
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ISBN |
9780615600468 |
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0615600468 |
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