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Leper Creativity (Cyclonopedia Symposium) (2012)
A symposium document that shows geotrauma's afterlife as a public discussion around Cyclonopedia and infernal materialism.
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Core idea
The page matters because geotrauma survives through editors, translators, and symposia as well as through primary statements. Transmission is part of the concept's afterlife.
Framing documents work by organizing access and circulation. They turn difficult earth-writing into a relay rather than a sealed monolith.
That matters because the outside is not only a theme but also a publication problem: how inhuman material is made legible without domesticating it.
How to read this text
Read the framing choices carefully. Editorial mediation is what makes this page belong in the section.
Track how public circulation changes, but does not erase, the infernal and geological pressure of the materials being introduced.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 513
11 Cyclonopedia, 239: “Ungrounding is involved with discovering or unearthing a chemically-degenerating underside to the ground.” As I take it, ungrounding describes immanent forces of decay that would seem to conspire with the outside by degrading the consistency of solid bodies.
Definition · paragraph 209
51 on blackened blood, its depth and longevity are constrained by the life of organisms . . . In order to deepen . . . and broaden . . . the potencies of Earth’s futurities, the avatar of petroleum as the Blob or the Thing must also be extended outside of what the astrophysicist Thomas Gold calls the ‘myth of fossil fuels’.
Definition · paragraph 209
In order to deepen . . . and broaden . . . the potencies of Earth’s futurities, the avatar of petroleum as the Blob or the Thing must also be extended outside of what the astrophysicist Thomas Gold calls the ‘myth of fossil fuels’. For Gold, petroleum has its origin in alien hydrocarbons of deep space, which have been trapped in the bowels of the earth.
Definition · paragraph 91
Abandoning the circumspection with which Freud handles what he still supposes to be ‘metaphorical’ stratal imagery, Dr Daniel Barker’s Cosmic Theory of Geotrauma, or Plutonics, flattens the theory of psychic trauma onto geophysics, with psychic experience becoming an encrypted geological report, the repercussion of a primal Hadean trauma in the material unconscious of Planet Earth.
History · paragraph 8
LEPER CREATIVITY: CYCLONOPEDIA SYMPOSIUM © The individual contributors and punctum books, 2012.
Appears in sections
Geotrauma and the Outside Primary section
Molten earth, Barker, the inhuman Outside, and the archive's geological imagination.