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reza-negarestani-how-to-make-yourself-an-agi
"reza-negarestani-how-to-make-yourself-an-agi" belongs to the wider Negarestani archive where horror, commentary, interview, and conceptual experiment keep post-CCRU theory-fiction in public circulation.
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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 25
Reza Negarestani: No, at this point I’m sure you’re more well-versed in Intelligence and Spirit than I am!
Definition · paragraph 8
grandest sense, a vision of philosophy as a project at once transcendental and functionalist, as having always been a program for the construction of artificial intelligence, in the form of a striving to understand what we are as intelligences, how we can live up to our capacities, and how we can make ourselves better—because intelligence cannot be separated from its tendency to upgrade itself, which Reza interprets in terms of Plato’s concept of the Good.
Definition · paragraph 19
Reza even speaks of our responsibility as intelligent beings to continue to artificialize ourselves since, deprived of its movement of continual expansion, trapped in a box, whether it’s a human frame or a computational gadget, intelligence ceases to be.
History · paragraph 2
Reza Negarestani expands upon the major themes of his new book Intelligence and Spirit in this edited and expanded version of his conversation with Robin Mackay at the launch of the book in New York in November 2018.
Method · paragraph 3
Robin Mackay: Before I invite Reza to discuss some of the themes and ambitions of Intelligence and Spirit, I’d like to give a short, somewhat personal introduction to the book by relaying my impressions of Intelligence and Spirit as an editor and as a reader.
Appears in sections
Reza Negarestani and Inhumanism Primary section
Negarestani, inhumanism, and the philosophical afterlives that extend beyond shorthand accelerationism.