Cyclonopedia Quotes

“The utilization of power in a decaying system is a necrophilic experience.”
― Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials

“In Hidden Writing, a main plot is constructed to camouflage other plots (which can register themselves as plot holes) by overlapping them with the surface (superficially dynamic plot) or the grounded theme. In terms of such a writing, the main plot is the map or the concentration blueprint of plot holes (the other plots).”
― Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials

“Pink (AQ=86)
Pink comes after Red.”
― Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials

“For Jihad, the desert lies at the end of an oil pipeline.”
― Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials

“and activities. To this extent, petropolitical undercurrents run through terrestrial decoding machines, conspiracies, polytics and Tellurian dynamics — or what, in Gilles Deleuze and F6tix Guattari's somewhat aestheticist and conservative appropriation, is known as the New Earth (on the basis of what calendar, according to which planetary reference, is this New Earth announced?) A blobjective view necessarily diverges from the Earth as a whole towards an entirely different entity, an earth under the process of 'Eradication*, as it was called in Hyperstition's laboratory. Eradication as a process spreads out in at least three directions: (1) the leveling of all planetary erections (idols?), or the attainment of a burning immanence with the Sun (the solar outside) and the burning core of the”
― Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials

“Moreover, Parsani's breakthrough was coincidental with an ongoing discus- sion at Hyperstition's laboratory crisscrossing between the Deleuze-Guattarian model of the ’war machine* and desert-nomadism. The discussion was spiralling through a series of theoretical confrontations between jungle militarism (the Vietnam war or the process of NAMification) and desert-militarism (War-on- Terror and Mecca-nomics). The discussion at Hyperstition ultimately developed into what would later be defined as 'biobjectivity', or the logics of petropolitical undercurrents. According to a blobjective point of view, petropolitical undercurrents function as narrative lubes: they interconnect inconsistencies, anomalies or what we might simply call the ‘plot holes' in narratives of planetary formations”
― Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials

“Parsani's manuscript evoked a feverish excitement in Hyperstition's laboratory as the discovery of these notes on the cross of Akht — an artifact whose 'decimal gates* opened onto an inorganic pestilence, recovered from a forsaken perpetuity, or the 'Ancient Without Tradition’ — coincided with one of Hyperstition's theoretico-fictional projects. This project explored nexuses between numeracy. Tellurian dynamics, warmachines and petropolitics, models for grasping war-as-a-machine and monotheistic apocalypticism, all in connection with the Middle East. The project had been temporarily halted for lack of what may be called 'technical elements for the fictional side': what was missing was some vehicle for transporting the theoretical carriers in their expedition, a narrative line with the appropriate authority to mobilize the fictional side of the project.”
― Reza Negarestani, Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials