Complicity with Anonymous Materials
by Reza Negarestani
- Author(s)
- Reza Negarestani
- Publication, year
- Melbourne : re.press, 2008
- Scope
- 244 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780980544008
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.
- Keywords
- (in)equity , colonisation , justice
- Geographical location
- Middle East
- Location
- Cabinet 30 - 2: Recht en Vrede ; See You in The Hague
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