{"product_id":"leper-creativity-cyclonopedia-symposium-9780615600468","title":"Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium","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.\u003cp\u003eCONTENTS: 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: 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 \u0026amp; Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, \"Phileas Fogg, or the Cyclonic Passepartout: On the Alchemical Elements of War\" - Ben Woodard, \"The Untimely (and Unshapely) Decomposition of Onto-Epistemological Solidity: Negarestani's Cyclonopedia as Metaphysics\" - Ed Keller, \". . .Or, Speaking with the Alien, a Refrain. . .\" - Lionel Maunz, \"Receipt of Malice\" -  yk  Tekten, \"Symposium Photographs\" - Reza Negarestani, \"Notes on the Figure of the Cyclone\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Punctum Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491840332050,"sku":"9780615600468","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5695317d-f055-40c1-bf15-70ab71d3d5da.jpg?v=1730558777","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/leper-creativity-cyclonopedia-symposium-9780615600468","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}