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Negarestani-2007-Horror of something
"2007-Horror of something" belongs to the wider Negarestani archive where horror, commentary, interview, and conceptual experiment keep post-CCRU theory-fiction in public circulation.
Archive condition
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Core idea
The page matters because it shows how Negarestani's archive spills beyond a few canonical works into interviews, horror fragments, project notes, and conceptual commentary. Post-CCRU theory-fiction is kept alive here through unusual relays rather than through one settled genre.
These pages work by moving between horror, interview, commentary, and project-writing. Conceptual labor survives through mixed forms that keep thought mobile, synthetic, and unfinished.
That matters because Negarestani's importance is not exhausted by a handful of famous books or essays. The archive needs this larger public and para-public layer to show how his inhumanist and post-CCRU concerns keep mutating across genres.
How to read this text
Read for the relay the page is using - interview, horror fragment, philosophical aside, project note - before translating it into one stable doctrine.
Track where synthetic reason, inhuman labor, or material decomposition reappears even in the strangest formats. That continuity is often the page's real value.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 18
This is the horror of unintelligibility whose imposition is the exposition of the first ones fatuity and annulment: Rabid Nihilism (3) The impossibility of revelation or the impossibility of any truth at all be it unintelligible void or intelligible something.
Definition · paragraph 18
Solely by abiding to its ontological intention (remaining so and as such), something passes on the intension of nothing in the form of the problematic. This is the horror that seeps through only by remaining so and such, because to survive or to be is to remain problematic.
Definition · paragraph 18
Revelation in itself is indeterminable because neither the imposition of nothing nor the exposition of something can be determined the horror of indeterminability (sequelism and video games) (4) The imposition or exposition of something (anything) be it a truth or not, temporarily or abysmally is only possible by the intervention of something radically exterior to it.
Definition · paragraph 18
We call this the horror of intelligibility: Lord works in mysterious ways. (2) The revelation of unintelligible nothing, or in other words, the blind void which will be exposed as the autophagic truth underlying everything. This is the horror of unintelligibility whose imposition is the exposition of the first ones fatuity and annulment: Rabid Nihilism (3) The impossibility of revelation or the impossibility of any truth at all be it unintelligible void or intelligible something.
Style · paragraph 15
Something in itself litters the empty blackness with objects which are something qua unintelligibility and thereby emanates the weird as a cosmic reality. Yet nothing, seeping through the intension of something, renders the weird intrinsically and necessarily problematic.
Appears in sections
Reza Negarestani and Inhumanism Primary section
Negarestani, inhumanism, and the philosophical afterlives that extend beyond shorthand accelerationism.