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Negarestani - Navigate with Extreme Prejudice [encyclonospace iranica]
A major page that turns navigation and prejudice into a geophilosophical and strategic problem rather than a purely moral category.
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Core idea
These pages matter because they keep Negarestani's decay line materially and politically active. Decay, navigation, and revolution are treated as operational processes, not as metaphors of decline or doom.
The pages work by making planetary depth, architectural softness, decomposition, and computation carry political argument. Material process is the medium in which strategy and transformation are thought.
That matters because this cluster keeps Negarestani tied to geotrauma without reducing him to horror aesthetics. It shows a route from decay and geology into political and conceptual construction.
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Read for how the page turns material process into orientation or strategy rather than mere description of ruin.
Track where geophilosophy and politics are forced into the same frame. That crossover is where the cluster becomes most distinctive.
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Definition · paragraph 4
3 Navigate With Extreme Prejudice (Definitions and Ramifications) Reza Negarestani • Traditionally, philosophy is an ascetic cognitive ex- perimentation in abstract (general) intelligence. In the broadest sense, it is simultaneously a rigorous program of abstraction and a platform for automation of discursive practices whose mission is to arrive at what came to be known to Greeks as logoi or truths.
Definition · paragraph 4
3 Navigate With Extreme Prejudice (Definitions and Ramifications) Reza Negarestani • Traditionally, philosophy is an ascetic cognitive ex- perimentation in abstract (general) intelligence.
Definition · paragraph 12
Encyclonospace Iranica centres on new media for sev- eral reasons. The end of the decade-long slowdown in the production and circulation of modern art in Iran during the 1980s, which had begun with the 1979 revolution and continued during the Iran-Iraq war, coincided with the emergence of new media practices in global contemporary art.
Definition · paragraph 15
Negarestani sees knowledge as a rule- based and navigational abyss whose geometrical space is constituted by the careful gestures of creative thought. This process involves tarrying with contingency and ad- vancing without preconditioned grounds.
Definition · paragraph 18
In such a context, artists are often themselves paradoxical signs for the disappearance and persistence of individuality in a post-internet world supposedly composed of networked objects and subjects. By including a larger than usual number of artists and adopting an encyclopedic approach to the presentation of art in an intimate setting, Encyclonospace Iranica is shifting the emphasis away from singular subjectivities to a collective one.
Appears in sections
Reza Negarestani and Inhumanism Primary section
Negarestani, inhumanism, and the philosophical afterlives that extend beyond shorthand accelerationism.