#cyclonopedia

[suchpostsveryblogwow]

Im an open book but the book is Cyclonopedia

[grilde1chesse]

i love becoming known in my english class as the guy whos always reading some weird ass obscure pirated horror book

[thothproductions]

Around 200 million years ago, at the height of the war, some of the insectform war machines laid eggs. About 1000 years ago, in the cliffs of Utah, they hatched. What have they been up to since? Cyclonopedia by Reza Negarastani is one of my favorite books.

[systemhead]

ideal picture of me

completely naked and pale and hairless (in a neurotic way) in a pitch black field

looking very transgender, but you can’t really tell what gender is in this context

covered in blood from the neck down but not visibly injured

flash of the camera captures me only from the bridge of the nose down, my eyes are completely obscured, you can only really see my smile

I’m smiling the biggest grin you’ve ever seen, standing with one armed raised, beckoning you to join

[bowtiedauthor]

The Black Flame or: subterranean blood worship

inspired by Cyclonopedia by Reza Negarestani

In earth’s hallowed subterranean womb confined, Where shadows breathe and darkness ever reigns, A liquid flame ignites the space entwined, A sentient force within blackened veins. From ancient soil doth black gold softly seep, A whisper silent, cosmic cry forlorn, Through fractured stone its essence dark doth creep, A tellurian pulse ‘neath sky is born.

The East, a vortex deep and tempest-torn, A stage where earth and man in conflict stand, Where ancient myths in anger are reborn, And weeping springs anew in desert sand. Oil, blood of earth in dolorous descent, A weapon forged within nature’s core, The congealed biomass of epochs lent, To create heat and energy, evermore.

Petroleum, thou dark and subtle foe, In complicity we bind our fate, To forces deep beneath the sky doth grow, In shadows of a timeless state. Through warlike engines and through armor’d might, The black flame fuels unending, ceaseless strife, A dance of shadows in the darkened night, Entwined with human soul and mortal life.

The blackening, a world by fire transformed, By liquid’s unyielding grip enthralled, In myth and mind its presence has stormed, Through history’s veins it drips and calls. O worshippers of the blackened flame, In complicity we take our part, Bound to the liquid’s ancient claim, Its darkness etched upon our heart.

As tellurian whispers rise and fall, And subterranean plots do yet unfold, We seek the truth ‘neath lies that we enthrall, In oil’s embrace, a tale is told. In blackened fields, where shadows darkly bloom, And myths of old find life in form anew, We worship at the earth’s most ancient tomb, The liquid flame, both old and true.

Through punctured earth, the otherworldlies creep, Dimensional gates where shadows breathe, Our ignorance, a gift to depths that seep, In oil’s dark thrall, we blindly weave. A mirror to the sun’s consuming fire, The earth rebels in shadow’s cold embrace, An apocalyptic end, our dark desire, In blackened veins, we find our fateful place.

-8/2/24

[assaultmystic]

“(…) because playing with memory (i.e. inventing lines of iteration through memory other than mere remembering functions) sorcerously reinvents events not as localizable beings but as deathless (in the sense of demonic restlessness) and inexhaustible germ-lines. Playing with memory, beyond the legitimate ac­tivity of remembering, enmeshes memory as a playground of agitated activities in the past which break the organizational consistency of the past in regard to present and future. The past as a static chronologic horizon intrinsically tends to sedentarize all types of activities in itself, or to make itself the stabilizing ground of activities in present or future: The past belongs to the Divine and tradition.”

-Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials (2008, 68), Reza Negarestani

[omnipol]

Finally, even in the absence of desert-nomadism, oil turns Time toward apocalyptic blasphemies. ... oil, with its poromechanical zones of emergence in economy, geopolitics and culture, mocks the Divine chronological time with the utmost irony and obscenity.

Holistic political, religious and military readings - based on the logics of whole, its parts and the environment - sacrifice the autonomy of their object in favour of their environments or their global wholes.

Theology is in general constantly obsessed with plugging holes, covering cracks and fissures in reasoning of and about the Divine. Thus, it forms lacunae of imperfection by which the corpus of theology can always be mobilised against itself, turning against itself and biting back its body. To do rigorous theology is to perforate the Divine's corpus with heresies.

I do not look at monotheistic religions as Secret-o-al-Mostaghim (the straight path), nor do I curse them as ghouls of repression. I simply see them as generous mothers pregnant with their minorities - thousands, millions of them; a female scorpion devoured by its own children, ripped apart from the belly. This is what Ibn Maymun taught us, the minority holocaust. (H. Parsani)

Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia

[kibumkim]

First book im gonna read for the year is cyclonopedia

[titoist]

i liked existing here.

staring out into nothing for eternity & having the thought suddenly form in my head, "trying to read cyclonopedia at 10 probably messed me up"

[spaceintruderdetector]

https://archive.org/details/b4d68a6d-01fb-48f1-9f64-1fcdaaf1cdfd/mode/2up

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.

[weirdopolitics]

Started reading Slatsky’s Immeasurable Corpse of Nature (the story itself, in the book of the same name). I like it so far! It reminds me a little bit of Cyclonopedia, although easier to decipher.

I wasn’t expecting a Le Guin reference to be a significant detail of the story, and now I feel like I need to read The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.

[akanistha]

Cyclonopedia prompts

[ronaldono-sense]

my somewhat immediate reading list for the next couple months. for tracking reasons, mostly, and in no particular order:

>The Thunder: Perfect Mind: A New Translation and Introduction (et al.); >The Gnostic Gospels (Elaine Pagels); >Marcion: The Gospel of the Alien God (Adolf V. Harnack).

i need to stop postponing Cyclonopedia (Negarestani), but i am intimidated. i begun Monas Hieroglyphica (Dee), but i am not sure how that will go; and it's not like i don't have other unfinished books to get through.

barely keeping up with a short Kafka book right now, so maybe i'll finish it and be more casual until next year.

[drh3nryj3kyll]

I need book recommendations!

I enjoy: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Flowers for Algernon, How to Train Your Dragon, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, The Dark Crystal

I plan to read: Fahrenheit 451, Sherlock Holmes, Cyclonopedia, Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Phantom of the Opera, The Wizards of Once, The Worst Witch, Which Way to Anywhere, Carmilla + other gothlit things

For the next time I go shopping :3

I need more books to read, please. I need to expand my to-read list!!!

. . . Even if there are already 60 books on my to-read list.

[deepseacityunderground]

found a youtube video essay vid on youtube about cyclonopedia. will it be good

[grandhotelabyss]

Thoughts on that "Cyclonopedia" book and other stuff in that genre?

Never read it, only flipped through it, didn't seem like my type of thing. I'm not sure what you mean by "that genre." I googled "books like Cyclonopedia" and got a 115-item list of "Theory Fiction" on Goodreads that's so bizarrely heterogeneous—Montaigne's Essays, The Book of Urizen, Sartor Resartus, The Waves, Minima Moralia, Male Fantasies, The Complete Plays of Sarah Kane, Perdido Street Station, Citizen—it defeats the purpose of a list, as if you could just make a list of everything. (There's some really interesting stuff on there, though, like Alan Moore's great essay on magic, "Fossil Angels," which is neither theory nor fiction, nor is it a book.) My own novel Portraits and Ashes might qualify as "theory fiction." Probably the closest things to Cyclonopedia I wrote about over the years on my website are House of Leaves and Found Audio.