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Cyclonopedia: Complicity With Anonymous Materials (2008)

by Reza Negarestani(Favorite Author)

3.98 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0980544009 (ISBN13: 9780980544008)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Re.Press

review 1: Deleted my earlier review because it seemed short-sighted. Since initially reading this book a few months ago, I have almost completely reassessed my priorities as both a reader and a writer. Cynclonopedia has proven to be the beginning of a long, sometimes difficult enlightenment. Probably the single most significant text I've come across since being taught Bergson's Matter and Memory in college.
review 2: "In Shawwal of 783 AH, Um al-Ghathra was in a caravan heading to Khurasan, Iran for trade and pilgrimage. Towards the end of its journey, the caravan changed its direction in the night because what they sighted ahead in their assumed direction was a lagoon instead of a city. After a few days of wandering, they headed back for their homes. Once settled, Um al... more-Ghathra began to write a treatise on what would later be called the Middle East as a sentient and living entity - alive in a very literal sense of the word, apart from all metaphor or allegory. Time passed, and Um al-Ghathra heard from fellow travelers that the caravan had changed its course by mistake on that night: their orientation had in fact been good: what they had mistaken for a salt lake was a pyramid formed from a pile of tens of thousands of skulls from the recently sacked city, glowing in the light of a hundred tarred torches." less

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