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Reza Negarestani Mohammad Salemy Cyclonopedia revisited 200723

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Negarestani in conversation with Salemy revisiting Cyclonopedia's themes of the outside and capitalism.

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standalone
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03:12:01 (~192 min)
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18,911
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Reza Negarestani, Mohammad Salemy
Topics
Reza Negarestani · Cyclonopedia · outside · Middle East geopolitics
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  • 00:00:00

    you you hi matthew hello how's it going it's going well can you make me the host yes because we are not going to let so we don't need same hi pamela hi um um we only we are going to only let the folks who signed up in and apparently the news center shared the zoom link in their story which is not good i have…

  • 00:41:46

    And of course, if I am allowed to, can I add one or two words about the event itself? This event within which, you know, I'm talking about. Mohamed knows, and sometimes he gets very livid, that Reza is a loose cannon. Everyone knows that. That I do talk in all honesty. I do not two words. And that, of course, creates…

  • 01:15:38

    very important aspect of the story. I think that this is a very important aspect of the story. I think that this is a very important aspect of the story. And I think that this is a very important aspect of the story. And I think that this is a very important aspect of the story. And I think that this is a very…

  • 01:44:23

    And... From the, from, yeah, like what, I don't think this is, this is, this is so much business as usual. This is in the words of, in the words of Palestinian commentators themselves, is like a, a real big shift that's taking place. Now, this is not necessarily a digging of a hole way too deep, as deep as you would…

  • 02:03:14

    No, I'm pretty sure that some artist at this point listening to us is going to create, curate, create a show where basically gravitation is my definition. I see Carl here at Georgiana's screen. Maybe Carl can bring it up and you two can talk about the black sun and gravity and we get somewhere with that. Thank…

  • 02:24:09

    And people think, people abuse us precisely because we are, they think we are puppets, right? Puppets of these sorts of materials. We haven't, we haven't. And of course, you see, this is the whole idea of the Iranian revolutionary circle, starting with Mohammad Khilafani, the great sheikh, who created, what, 48 hours…

  • 02:47:39

    by rilke by everybody but then there is this kind of unexplainable when it does happen need to move on to move forward to guide life towards life not towards death and this this kind of uh yes no no i completely get this but i'm saying technique you should understand what i'm saying technique i'm filming i think…

  • 03:11:53

    Bye. Bye. Thank you so much. Thank you so much, Prambo. Love you. Ciao. Bye bye. Yeah, bye.