Cyclonopedia

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...

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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. 'The Middle East is a sentient entity - it is alive ' concludes renegade Iranian archeologist Dr. Hamid Parsani, before disappearing under mysterious circumstances. The disordered notes he leaves behind testify to an increasingly deranged preoccupation with oil as the 'lubricant' of historical and political narratives. A young American woman arrives in Istanbul to meet a pseudonymous online acquaintance who never arrives. Discovering a strange manuscript in her hotel room, she follows up its cryptic clues only to discover more plot-holes, and begins to wonder whether her friend was a fictional quantity all along. Meanwhile, as the War on Terror escalates, the US is dragged into an asymmetrical engagement with occultures whose principles are ancient, obscure, and saturated in oil. It is as if war itself is feeding upon the warmachines, leveling cities into thedesert, seducing the aggressors into the dark heart of oil ...

Introduzione
di Sebastiano Maffettone
Cyclonopedia
Incognitum Hactenus
di Kristen Alvanson
Archeologia batterica
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Introduzione
di Sebastiano Maffettone
Cyclonopedia
Incognitum Hactenus
di Kristen Alvanson
Archeologia batterica
Inferiore, sottosuolo e interni XENOCHIMICI
Paleopetrologia
Dall’asse Gog-Magog al petropunkismo
Excursus I
(Combustione incompleta, pirodemonismo
e ossessione per il NAPALM)
Le macchine scavano
Excursus II
(Memoria e complesso ()hole)
Odissea dell’oleodotto
Il monologo di Z
Esumazioni
Antichità e particelle diaboliche
Un reperto assiro
Escursus III
(Occulto, la macropolitica dello Stato
e l’inquinamento politico)
La madre defunta di tutti i contagi
Excursus IV
(Teratologia Meteorologica)
Mistmare (Nebbicubo)
Escursus V
(Petrolio nebbia: una retrospezione sugli oscuranti)
La legione
Macchine da guerra, predatori e flagelli
Il tutore della polvere
Excursus VI
(Xenoagenti e l’Asse assiro del Male-contro-il-Male)
La cosa
Guerra bianca e ipermimetizzazione
La guerra come macchina
Excursus VII
(il codice di Yatu)
Insorgenze telluriche
Xerodromo, tempeste solari e Asse Terra-Sole
Complotto telluro-magnetico contro il Sole I
Sonaglio solare
Excursus VIII
(Musica barbarica e alfabeti senza vocali)
Cinque miliardi di anni di ingegneria infernale
Complotto telluro-magnetico contro il sole II
Il nucleo (The Core)
Excursus IX
(Dracolatria: scrivere con il Medio Oriente)
L’asse mesopotamico della comunicazione
Una nota
Excursus X
(Az e Destrudo)
Regioni inesplorate
Spazi catalitici
Decadimento
Excursus XI
(Modellazione della vita)
Polytica
Complicità e schizostrategie per l’apertura
e l’insorgenza
Un buon pasto
Il vantaggio schizostrategico
La folla Z.
La cellula germinale infestata del monoteismo
Excursus XII
(L’Olocausto eretico)
Excursus XII
(Schizostrategia e l’origine della paranoia)
Glossario
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