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week 1
"week 1" 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 5
A Mystical-Materialist Analytic of the Sublime A note on the course readings Some versions of the readings are slightly different from the ones listed in the course description, so if in doubt go by the chapter/article titles rather than the page numbers. Whether you read one or all of the key readings before or after the lecture is up to what you find most helpful.
Definition · paragraph 5
Whether you read one or all of the key readings before or after the lecture is up to what you find most helpful. The lectures aim to be as tabula rasa and accessible as possible whilst permitting people to engage with them at whatever their prior level of contact with Land, Kant and the other philosophers we will look at.
History · paragraph 1
Land’s Legacy Speculative realism (Ray Brassier and Iain Hamilton Grant) The Artworld (Orphan Drift, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Kode 9 and Reza Negarestani) Accelerationism (Mark Fisher, Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams) Cyberfeminism (Luciana Parisi, some xenofeminists) Anticipations Week 1. Critique of Accumulative Reason: Kant and Capital Week 2. Reading with Fangs: Trakl, Heidegger, Derrida Week 3.
Method · paragraph 5
1.2. A Mystical-Materialist Analytic of the Sublime A note on the course readings Some versions of the readings are slightly different from the ones listed in the course description, so if in doubt go by the chapter/article titles rather than the page numbers.
Method · paragraph 5
The lectures aim to be as tabula rasa and accessible as possible whilst permitting people to engage with them at whatever their prior level of contact with Land, Kant and the other philosophers we will look at. The recommended readings are just there to indicate the best place to start if you want to follow up any of the content from the corresponding lecture.
Appears in sections
Reza Negarestani and Inhumanism Primary section
Negarestani, inhumanism, and the philosophical afterlives that extend beyond shorthand accelerationism.