Reza Negarestani Libros

A unique fusion of comics culture and philosophical cogitation takes readers on a ride through time, space, and thought. Approaching the comic medium as a supercollider for achieving maximum abstraction, in Chronosis artist Keith Tilford and philosopher Reza Negarestani create a graphically stunning and conceptually explosive universe in which the worlds of pop culture, modern art, philosophy, science fiction, and theoretical physics crash into one another. Taking place after the catastrophic advent of the birth of time, Chronosis narrates the story of a sprawling multiverse at the center of which monazzeins, the monks of an esoteric time-cult, attempt to build bridges between the many fragmented tribes and histories of multiple possible worlds. Across a series of dizzying overlapping stories we glimpse worlds where time flows backward, where the universe can be recreated every five minutes, or where rigid facts are washed away by the tides of an infinite ocean of possibility. A unique fusion of comics culture and philosophical cogitation, this conceptually and visually mind-expanding tale takes the reader on a dizzying rollercoaster ride through time, space, and thought. This volume contains the entire Chronosis series in full color, along with additional background materials including early sketches, script notes, and alternative covers.

"At once a horror fiction, a work of speculative theology, an atlas of demonology, a political samizdat and a philosophic grimoire, CYCLONOPEDIA is a theory-fiction on the Middle East as a living entity. Negarestani bridges contemporary politics and the War on Terror with the archeologies of the Middle East and the natural history of the Earth."--Provided by publisher.

A critique of both classical humanism and dominant trends in posthumanism that formulates the ultimate form of intelligence as a theoretical and practical thought unfettered by the temporal order of things.

Essay inspired by conversations with the artist Jean-Luc Moulène addressing abstraction as a multifaceted project in the general domain of thought, and as a specific process of artistic experimentation. The fruit of numerous conversations with the artist Jean-Luc Moulène, Reza Negarestani's essay addresses abstraction as a multi-faceted project in the general domain of thought, and as a specific process of artistic experimentation. How can abstraction be so apparently ubiquitous in contemporary art, and yet so nebulously defined? "We have all heard of abstraction, but no one has ever seen one...." In Moulène's work, Negarestani discovers a renewal of the constitutive gesture of abstraction, rooted in the dialectic between form (mathematics) and sensible matter (physics). At once sensory, cognitive, and political, the disturbing force of the work compels us to reconnect the parochial art-historical notion of abstraction to a more comprehensive understanding of the term. Perhaps such a "formal cruelty of thought" is capable of "reactivating abstraction as a vector of disjunction and unity of art, philosophy, and science." Published by Sequence Press on the occasion of Jean-Luc Moulène's exhibition Torture Concrete, September 7-October 26, 2014, at Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York.

Der häretische Archäologe Dr. Hamid Parsani, der unter mysteriösen Umständen verschwindet, hinterlässt ungeordnete Notizen, die seine komplexe Auseinandersetzung mit Erdöl als dem wahren 'Schmiermittel' historischer und politischer Narrative belegen. Eine junge Amerikanerin reist nach Istanbul, um ein Treffen mit einer Online-Bekanntschaft zu arrangieren, das jedoch scheitert. In ihrem Hotelzimmer entdeckt sie ein seltsames Manuskript mit kryptischen Hinweisen, die sie in einen Strudel von Widersprüchen führen und sie an der Existenz ihres Online-Freundes zweifeln lassen. Währenddessen eskaliert der 'War on Terror', und die USA geraten in einen asymmetrischen Konflikt mit Okkulturen, die an einer finsteren, ölgesättigten Weltanschauung festhalten. Der Krieg scheint die Kriegsmaschinen zu nähren und ganze Städte in der Wüste zu vernichten. Die Erzählung verwebt Horror, spekulative Theologie, politischen Diskurs und philosophische Überlegungen zu einer Theorie des Nahen Ostens, in der Schrecken auf Schrecken folgt. Reza Negarestani verknüpft zeitgenössische Weltpolitik mit der Archäologie des Nahen Ostens und einer Naturgeschichte der Welt. Die Reise in die Unterwelt beginnt in den Ölfördergebieten und führt durch die Tentakeln der Ölpipelines bis in die Wüste, wo Monotheismus und die teerigen Träume vom Aufstand der Erde aufeinandertreffen.