Negarestani pioneered the genre of 'theory-fiction' with his book Cyclonopedia which was published in 2008, he is also contributing to online journals like and . The name Reza Negarstani is usually heard in connection with the term speculative realism. He also coined the term Culinary Materialism.
A sequel to Cyclonopedia and the second installment in the Blackening trilogy, The Mortiloquist is a barbaric interpretation of the life and problems of Western philosophy. Feasting on the theatrical resources of Greek tragedy, Jacobean revenge drama, grand guignol theater, the theater of cruelty, aktionism (especially Herman Nitsch's Fall of Jerusalem and Orgien Mysterien theater) and employing the dialogue-commentary of scholasticism, The Mortiloquist is a cross-breed of play and philosophy.
" New and forthcoming texts | Main | Category Theory: recommended readings " July 14, 2011 Fernando Zalamea: a prologue and a seminar Versus Laboratory has announced a forthcoming lecture by Colombian mathematician and philosopher Fernando Zalamea to take place at Jan Van Eyck Academie on 29 September, 2011 ( details here).
It took me nine months to contact Hamid Parsani, the reclusive Iranian archaeologist, after an audience member approached me after a talk and suggested that I find a way to speak with the notorious-and notoriously elusive-scholar.
" Will you be a part of it? | Main December 13, 2013 A View of Man from the Space of Reasons I will be joining the Accelerationism symposium in Berlin via Skype. Abstracts and other details regarding the symposium can be read here.
Death as a Perversion: Openness and Germinal Death A shattered introduction. From pre-Islamic Zoroastrian mages to Sade to Nietzsche, Bataille and Deleuze, the investigations into openness have been always accompanied by at least five supplements: life, death, horror, outside and intensity.
" Frontiers of Manipulation | Main January 10, 2014 How can you make me better? Two upcoming talks at Merve (Berlin) and Staedelschule (Frankfurt), abstracts and details below: How Can You Make Me Better? "Withdraw into yourself, as far as you can. Associate with those who will make a better man of you.
Symposium: Speculations on Anonymous Materials Participants: Maurizio Ferraris, Markus Gabriel, Iain Hamilton Grant, Robin Mackay, Reza Negarestani The Speculations on Anonymous Materials symposium brings together different approaches in philosophy, which in their own way all aim to go beyond modern and postmodern thinking.
Reza Negarestani Inhumanism is the extended practical elaboration of humanism; it is born out of a diligent commitment to the project of enlightened humanism. As a universal wave that erases the self-portrait of man drawn in sand, inhumanism is a vector of revision.
Speculations on Anonymous Materials Symposium Reza Negarestani, "Frontiers of Manipulation," (2014) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg0lMebGt9I (accessed January 23, 2014). So what one needs for manipulation is information about invariant relationships and one can identify invariant relationships even in cases in which one doesn't know laws, cannot trace spatio-temporally continuous processes or unify and systematize.
From a formalist perspective, the concept is introduced as a space over which man has no hold. It is an epistemic cue in an otherwise qualitatively homogenous information space - a desert - for which no map and no compass is given.
Reza Negarestani Continued from "The Labor of the Inhuman, Part I: Human" Enlightened humanism as a project of commitment to humanity, in the entangled sense of what it means to be human and what it means to make a commitment, is a rational project.
Why are functions important, especially in the study of complex phenomena or hierarchical and multi-layered systems where complexity arises not because of the size or the number of components or processes involved but because of the particularity of the mode of organization that orchestrates the activities and operations of various structural and functional hierarchies?
Strategy 1: Rather than assuming that truth is in the past--the obtained knowledge--philosophy dislodges the site of truth from the past--the origin and what has already taken place--to the future.
Negarestani: "Here is the promised reading list of key books and essays I used to work on the concept of navigation (you can find a general schema of it here [http://blog.urbanomic.com/cyclon/Navigation-2013.pdf]).
Reza Negarestani The central thesis of this text is that philosophy is, at its deepest level, a program-a collection of action-principles and practices-or-operations which involve realizabilities, i.e., what can be possibly brought about by a specific category of properties or forms. And that to properly define philosophy and to highlight its significance, we should approach philosophy by first examining its programmatic nature.