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Non-Oedipal Networks and the Inorganic Unconscious
- Melanie Doherty (author)
Chapter of: Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium(pp. 115–129)
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| Title | Non-Oedipal Networks and the Inorganic Unconscious |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Melanie Doherty (author) |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0017.1.07 |
| Landing page | https://punctumbooks.com/titles/leper-creativity-cyclonopedia-symposium/ |
| License | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ |
| Copyright | Doherty, Melanie |
| Publisher | punctum books |
| Published on | 2012-12-22 |
| Long abstract | er being mysteriously invited to this confer-ence out of the blue last fall and despite my reserva-tions and anxieties, I am here with a mixture of trepidation and curiosity. I was called out of nowhere, like Josef K. called to the castle. I have wondered many times how I ended up on the radar of the indi-viduals involved, and Reza Negarestani’s radar in par-ticular. I will not pretend to understand the engine behind this not entirely unpleasant experience of par-anoia that I’ve been feeling for the past few months as I read and reread Cyclonopedia. As a good hysteri-cized academic who still falls victim to the Discourse of the University, one who uses excessive Post-It© notes and checks footnotes, I read the text initially as a traditional book, but then I began to search beyond the original text on website after website after website, following the clues left initially in Kristen Alvanson’s journal. As I began burrowing through the archives, mole-like, I started to suspect a ludic collective throb-bing behind every cold discussion on Hyperstition,2every blog post and journal article, every conference announcement and facebook page, and perhaps lingering behind every page of the book as well. I began to see connections to the text everywhere online: trisons and weaponized rats, 9s and 11s, solar capitalism, Tel-lurian lubricant, xenopoetics! I giggled aloud with a tinge of hysteria when I saw that the date of the con-ference was indeed March 11—the same date as the first page of the Cyclonopedia manuscript itself! What grand and terrifying organizing skills were these?3What spell had been cast around me to make my hold on reality feel so tenuous? My Oedipa complex reached fever pitch as I read articles in Collapse, the history of the CCRU, Nick Land’s The Thirst for Anni-hilation, and tracked the unfolding debates within Speculative Realism. Terror fractals radiated out of unexpected civilian spaces. Plotholes unfurling vulvi-cally inside plotholes. And, finally, I suspected that I had plunged to a new depth in the molten magma core of my insanity when I woke up last Saturday morning to see this lead news story on the web: “Fox News Ex-clusive : NASA Scientist Claims Evidence of Alien Life on Meteorite!” (Because of the contingency of my current geographic location in Macon, GA, and the wonders of Web 2.0, FOX news often pops up first on my browser. Not by choice.) |
| Page range | pp. 115–129 |
| Print length | 15 pages |
| Language | English (Original) |