Take, for example, reza negarestanis account of what he refers. As the speakers in heckers hinge recite reza negarestani s nature, its man and his goat enigmata of natural and cultural chimeras, their voices are fed through a chimerization algorithm that hecker uses to fracture any kind of humanist understanding of voiceand indeed any humanist model of hearing. Gilson schwartz on the semiotics of digital currency out of sight, out of mind. Openness has been diagramed as both a tactical line and. As chapter seven closes paul devoted a great deal of time to talking about. Reza negarestani the legacy of the copernican revolution that is the revolution by and according to the open is comprised of three components. Lovecraft 18901937 and still best known to us from his many short stories. Reza negarestani incognitum hactenus by kristen alvanson re. Images courtesy quayola, from the projects laocoon and captives when i first heard of reza negarestani sometime in 2009, through the thenextremely active philosophical blogosphere coalesced around speculative realismhis was the kind of name whispered in dark corridors among initiates of an esoteric cult. Hailed by novelists, philosophers and cinematographers, negarestani s work is the first horror and science fiction book coming from and written on the middle east. The living and the dead at his command, were coupled, face to face, and hand to hand, till, chokd with stench, in loathd embraces tied, the lingring wretches pind away and died. For examples, reza negarestani 1 emphasize s the autonomy of reason without returning to a cartesian rationalism. Reza negarestani s text investigates the strategy of openness and its relationship with death to radicalize the implications of an accelerationist thought. Note from the editors mad speculation and absolute inhumanism.
Reality is horror it eats people like a carnivorous fog a construct so diabolical that man has been unwittingly cajoled into adorning the effervescence of his dreams and his fantasies with costumes of malleable terror. Keith tilford keith tilford is an artist and theorist living in brooklyn, new york, whose current art and research projects focus on the intersection of comics and artistic modernism in. They are not positioned to cut, block or replace each other depending upon their. Reza negarestani cyclonopedia complicity with anonymous materials. Whoever concocted the world did so under the influence of monsters, incarnations sired from states of selfreflexive revulsion. In fact, reza negarestani traces the custom of unimaginable torture to the greek tradition and. Chapter from reza negarestani, intelligence and spirit urbanomic.
His current philosophical project is focused on rationalist universalism beginning with the evolution of the modern system of knowledge and advancing toward contemporary philosophies of. In the broadest sense, it is simultaneously a rigorous program of abstraction and a platform for automation of discursive practices whose mission is to arrive at what came to be known to greeks as logoi or truths. According to articles published by middleeastern critics, the development of parsanis writings on the middle east throughout the years can be read through his approach to three enigmas. This is as much a question in the philosophy of mind as it is a question about how we should go about constructing artificial general intelligence. Negarestani s preoccupations and matrix of sociohistorical emergence have given him a unique perspective on the middle east. Lovecraft, ligotti, and the weirding of philosophy rainer ganahls sl. Although, the demarcation between reason and na ture. Since cyclonopedias publication, however, negarestani has left behind. Complicity with anonymous materials, which took place in march 2011 at the new school.
Negarestani has been a regular contributor to collapse journal, as well as other print and web publications such as ctheory. Hailed by novelists, philosophers, artists, cinematographers, and designers, cyclonopedia is a key work in the emerging domains of speculative realism and. Reza negarestani is an iranian philosopher and writer, known for pioneering the genre of theoryfiction with his book cyclonopedia which was published in 2008. Download full cyclonopedia book in pdf, epub, mobi and all ebook format. Reza negarestani is an iranian philosopher best known for pioneering the genre of theoryfiction with his book cyclonopedia. Reza negarestani part two of reza negarestani what is philosophy.
Complicity with anonymous materials, which took place on 11 march 2011 at the new school. Complicity with anonymous materials 2008, a work of theory. Cyclonopedia is theoreticalfiction novel by iranian philosopher and writer reza negarestani. This is an edit of a transcript for a presentation i gave as part of remarkable things. As an ascesis in cognition, it concerns with grasping the mind in terms of a diversifiable. He has also written for such journals and anthologies as collapse, angelaki and ctheory. He has lectured and taught at numerous international universities and institutes. Reza negarestani agency, its functions and transcendental structures we begin by a conceptual question regarding analysis, modeling and construction of humanlevel intelligence. Human inhumanism is the extended practical elaboration of humanism. Iranian philosopher reza negarestani s first 2008 book cyclonopedia was written under the influence of nick lands nihilistic and antihumanist philosophy which seeks to critique anthropomorphism by confronting us with our coming extinction beyond which our concepts of reason cannot reach. Reza negarestani s intelligence and spirit is by no means a neohegelian revival, but a provocative methodological attempt to apply some of hegels critical contentions on reason and spirit to the kantian epistemological program. Reza negarestani is an iranian philosopher and writer who lives and works in the middle east.
When in romans do as the righteous do calvary hanford. Kristen, in addition to being a character, is the creator of the books magnificent cover. From preislamic zoroastrian mages to sade to nietzsche, bataille and deleuze, the investigations into openness have been always accompanied by at least five supplements. The speculative drive of an extreme line of thought, the revolutionary vocation of disturbing the peace of this world in. In intelligence and spirit reza negarestani formulates the ultimate form of intelligence as a theoretical and practical thought unfettered by the temporal order of things, a real movement capable of overcoming any state of affairs that, from the perspective of the present, may appear to be the complete totality of history. Reza negarestani glass bead 2017 2 1 the reliability hypothesis of memory which secures the accuracy or factuality of derived empirical data and the history of past observations. The central thesis of this final chapter is that philosophy is, at its deepest level, a programa collection of actionprinciples and. The punishment imposed by mezentius on the soldiers of. Complicity with anonymous materials, which took place on 11 march 2011 at. Intelligence and spirit, by reza negarestani, published by. When i first heard of reza negarestanisometime in 2009, through the then extremely active philosophical blogosphere coalesced around speculative. At once a horror fiction, a work of speculative theology, an atlas of demonology, a political samizdat and a. Iranian philosopher reza negarestani s first 2008 book was written cyclonopedia under the influence of nick lands nihilistic and antihumanist philosophy which seeks to critique anthropomorphism by confronting us with our coming extinction beyond which our concepts of reason cannot reach. Hailed by novelists, philosophers, artists, cinematographers, and designers, cyclonopedia is a key work in the emerging domains of.
Engineering the world, crafting the mind nero editions. Negarestani, tournier and deleuze map the polytics of a new earth. Sui generis, confounding, disturbing, difficult, absorbing, and ingenious. Complicity with anonymous materials published by melbournes re. Reza negarestani philosopher and writer born in shiraz, iran. Essays, articles, artworks, and documents taken from and inspired by the symposium on reza negarestani s cyclonopedia. Navigate with extreme prejudice definitions and ramifications reza negarestani traditionally, philosophy is an ascetic cognitive experimentation in abstract general intelligence.