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Negarestani-2002-Pestis Solidus
"2002-Pestis Solidus" 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 14
Negarestani: PESTIS SOLIDUS: The suggested automobile-human system didymous [1] harmonia (not harmony or symphonia but a complex of initiums through a mesh which also implies the function of this configuration) undergoes an esoteric process of surface modification in a similar way which Platonic solidity and Pythagorean cosmogony attain.
Definition · paragraph 53
The dynamism of metrons installs grund as the significated fluvius or the fluvial process. For additional references on metron, see: Measures and Men, Witold Kula, Princton University Press, 1986; Decay and Pestis Solidus at Maraka Project, Cold Me (http://www.cold-me.net/maraka.html) 4.
Definition · paragraph 53
For additional references on metron, see: Measures and Men, Witold Kula, Princton University Press, 1986; Decay and Pestis Solidus at Maraka Project, Cold Me (http://www.cold-me.net/maraka.html) 4. "When act of touching happens the unity of matter will start; the coexistence of physics, one concave, the other convex ..." (Mehrdad Iravanian) 5.
Definition · paragraph 74
Necrophilia is the ultimate of such dimensionality wreckage and hunt multiplying on the pestilential bonds of philia and through the war-strategies of life; however, the certain segments and instances of necrocracy and Oedipalizing webs may enter in and try to appropriate this virulent openness but they just strategically enrich the battlefield, the dimensionality wreckage of mess engineering. (Pestis Solidus)
History · paragraph 3
Originally written for 'Homo.stasis' (R. Negarestani) as an answer to Mehrdad Iravanian: Iranian Architect, the winner of international stone architecture, Italy-2002 (IMM Carrara) together with Mario Botta.
Appears in sections
Reza Negarestani and Inhumanism Primary section
Negarestani, inhumanism, and the philosophical afterlives that extend beyond shorthand accelerationism.