Leper Creativity Cyclonopedia Symposium [Paperback]

Essays, articles, artworks, and documents taken from and inspired by the symposium on Reza Negarestanis 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 books 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: Lovecrafts 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 Alchemicl“5