Punctum Books Leper creativity: cyclonopedia symposium, paperback/reza negarestani

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Description 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.

CONTENTS: Robin Mackay, A Brief History of Geotrauma - Mc Kenzie 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: Lovecraft's '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 Alchem.