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Negarestani - The Revolution is Back
"The Revolution is Back" keeps Negarestani's decay-and-politics line in view, where rot, geophilosophy, and revolutionary transformation become material and conceptual operators at once.
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Core idea
These pages matter because decay is treated not as passive collapse but as an active mode of material and political transformation. Rot, revolution, and geophilosophy all become ways of thinking how systems are undone and remade from within.
The pages work by letting material process carry conceptual force. Decay, putrefaction, planetary depth, and revolutionary movement are used to show how thought and politics can be routed through matter rather than imposed upon it.
That matters because this line keeps Negarestani tied to the archive's geotraumatic side without reducing him to it. Decay becomes a way of thinking both decomposition and a non-sentimental politics of transformation.
How to read this text
Read for how the page makes material breakdown or planetary depth do explanatory work. That is usually where the politics becomes legible.
Track where decay becomes a vector rather than an endpoint. The strongest pages refuse to treat ruin as mere terminal negativity.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 6
Whatever arrives back from the future--which is in this case, both the mind implemented in a machine and a machine equipped with the mind--will be discontinuous to our historical anticipations regarding what the mind is and what the machine looks like." But why is the Turingian Revolution in cognitive sciences and artificial intelligence the only revolution that is instantly conceived in and takes place in the future?
Definition · paragraph 9
Both Turing's computationalism and functionalism are significant because the ramifications of these programs--no matter what their current state is and what setbacks they have suffered--cannot be thought by their present implications.
Definition · paragraph 6
In short, the Turingian Revolution does not happen here and now, and for this reason, the conception of revolution it exercises fundamentally deviates from the trajectory of the Copernican Revolution." The Turingian Revolution suggests that the future won't be a varied extension of the present condition.
Definition · paragraph 6
importance lies in how it grapples with the most fundamental question posed by Kant, "what is Man?", or what does it mean to be human?" Unlike the Copernican Revolution, the Darwinian Revolution, the Newtonian Revolution, and the Einsteinian Revolution in which we witness the consequences of the radical theoretical reorientation immediately manifesting themselves in the present world view, the site of the Turingian Revolution is always in the future.
Definition · paragraph 10
Narcissus can no longer see or anticipate his own image in the mirror. The recognition of the blank mirror is the sign that we have finally left our narcissistic phase behind. Indeed, we are undergoing a stage in which if humanity looks into the mirror it only sees an empty surface gawking back. !
Appears in sections
Reza Negarestani and Inhumanism Primary section
Negarestani, inhumanism, and the philosophical afterlives that extend beyond shorthand accelerationism.