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The Untimely (and Unshapely) Decomposition of Onto-Epistemological Solidity: Negarestani's Cyclonopedia as Metaphysics

Chapter of: Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium(pp. 213–223)

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TitleThe Untimely (and Unshapely) Decomposition of Onto-Epistemological Solidity
SubtitleNegarestani's Cyclonopedia as Metaphysics
ContributorBen Woodard(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0017.1.14
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/leper-creativity-cyclonopedia-symposium/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
CopyrightWoodard, Ben
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2012-12-22
Long abstractThis paper asserts that Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia is at its core a metaphysical text, a claim which I then force into complicity with a critique and reworking of the philosophical category of becoming. While not often discussed explicitly, becoming appears in Ne-garestani’s work as different mutations—as the mathe-sis of decay, as the cosmic liquidity of blobjectivity, of trisonomy, and of the dissected spiral. Becoming, whether organically or inorganically vitalist (DeleuzoGuattarian or otherwise), Bergsonally imagistic, or experientially Whiteheadian or Jamesian, has historically remained too wedded to the power of reason. Ratiocination, as a power, is one too grounded, as it purports to sufficiently probe the meandering flows of becoming without recognizing itself as a re-sult of other powers, processes and so on. This stream-ing conundrum reaches hyper-activity in Nick Land’s work. While Land rightly molds thought into a pro-ductive process, Land’s negation of representation and total destratification of materiality, as Ray Brassier has recently noted, raises the problem of individuation in a cosmos of only schizoid intensification. Negaresta-ni’s work, while indebted to Land, contrarily locates such intensification in an ever exteriorized absolute, in the strands of materiality as a process placing Ne-garestani’s work between a mad black Deleuzianism and a mad black Schellingianism. In order to dissect the metaphysical core of Cyclonopedia, this paper will engage the conceptual couplets ground/unground, in-terior/exterior (spatial and temporal) and a blackened becoming via the pivotal concept of the twist.
Page rangepp. 213–223
Print length11 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)