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Islamic Exotericism; Apocalypse in the Wake of Refractory Impossibility
"Islamic Exotericism; Apocalypse in the Wake of Refractory Impossibility" 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 1
273 COLLAPSE II Islamic Exotericism: Apocalypse in the Wake of Refractory Impossibility Reza Negarestani Unlike other strains of monotheism, Islam cannot be said to include the idea of an apocalypse in the sense in which we usually understand this word.
Definition · paragraph 1
273 COLLAPSE II Islamic Exotericism: Apocalypse in the Wake of Refractory Impossibility Reza Negarestani Unlike other strains of monotheism, Islam cannot be said to include the idea of an apocalypse in the sense in which we usually understand this word. In fact, the radically external, ‘impossible’ (non potest) nature of Allah renders the judaeo-christian apocalypse structurally impossible (impugnable).
Definition · paragraph 31
Although the book of Daniel is the only complete example of an apocalypse in the Hebrew Bible, other passages contain ideas that are either apocalyptic or similar to apocalyptic thought – Examples 303 Negarestani – Islamic Exotericism 15.
Definition · paragraph 31
Although the book of Daniel is the only complete example of an apocalypse in the Hebrew Bible, other passages contain ideas that are either apocalyptic or similar to apocalyptic thought – Examples 303 Negarestani – Islamic Exotericism 15. Metron (Greek origin), to be found etymologically encrypted in English words such as Dimension (from dimetiri: measure out), meter, etc.
Definition · paragraph 33
Redemption (the wayfarer becomes totally at one with God’s way of redemption) is inseparable from its consequent hope and boredom or redeeming despair, and modes of development which are steered by the conjunctive bonds between these two. The promise of 305 Negarestani – Islamic Exotericism to a purely distilled Unity (corresponding to the classic distilling mechanism).
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Reza Negarestani and Inhumanism Primary section
Negarestani, inhumanism, and the philosophical afterlives that extend beyond shorthand accelerationism.