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Negarestani-2002-a good meal
A Negarestani page that uses eating, flesh, and material process to keep the earth-side of inhumanism tactile and ugly.
Archive condition
The page uses the canonical extracted text as its reading layer while preserving the original file paths as the archival source of record.
Core idea
The page matters because geotrauma is not one genre. It can appear as interview, prediction essay, political myth, or tactile material speculation while still returning to the same problem of exposure to what exceeds human comfort.
Each page uses a different relay - conversation, prophecy, politics, seismic report, or fragment - to make the outside operative. Genre variation is part of the archive's method.
That matters because the outside is most convincing here when it crosses scales and formats instead of staying in one canonical philosophical voice.
How to read this text
Start by identifying the relay the page is using to approach the outside. That usually clarifies why it belongs in this section.
Track how material or temporal pressure is kept active even when the genre looks more public or reflective than the core CCRU prose.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 3
Anonymous until Now, the incognitum hactenus [8]), as a hunter who is an already-there, uncoats you bits by bits (the only question could be asked is 'where does it start from; head, face, nerves or the cavities?), eating and grinding you as vegetable and mineral; turning you into a fine meal, into a new meat . . . a new food, for a new earth (Deleuze).
Definition · paragraph 5
Mutant Dead God is the ultimate Good Meal out of a necrophilic mess (coldies engineering) that masculinity can undergo for wasting itself on Zero; to be lacerated open at last; but how much semen the dead god can afford to disseminate the 'mutant dead gods'?
Definition · paragraph 6
The ambrosia or the food of the gods is prepared in such a diabolically possessed kitchen with dishes tottering on heat-snuffed ovens and floor embedded with mess; ambrosia plague (A Good Meal) is germinated through the epidemic depths of openness.
Definition · paragraph 6
The ambrosia or the food of the gods is prepared in such a diabolically possessed kitchen with dishes tottering on heat-snuffed ovens and floor embedded with mess; ambrosia plague (A Good Meal) is germinated through the epidemic depths of openness. I am dusting my blood as a crust to forge an unground through which the god is buried and then exhumed. Openness only comes in the imperceptible recesses of infection: A faceless love.
Definition · paragraph 5
Only through becoming It, masculinity and the God can transplant themselves in the body of becoming woman as 'prosthesis', A Good Meal' or 'it': 'He' can only affirm becoming woman by becoming It, by becoming a prosthesis, a good meal.
Appears in sections
Geotrauma and the Outside Primary section
Molten earth, Barker, the inhuman Outside, and the archive's geological imagination.