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Negarestani-Through the anonymous histories of corpse and the History of Death
"Through the anonymous histories of corpse and the History of Death" 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 2
In fact, what I discussed in 'Decay' was a summarized fraction of my project on power, life, and base-desire on the one hand and on necrophilia, openness and necrocracy on the other, accompanied by my ethnographic investigations. Hope this very brief reply clarifies my discussions to some extent. My project is started with the history of corpse management and handling which returns to ancient Persia and Çatal Hüyük (7400 BCE) in Anatolian plateau, also the rest of other civilizations at that time.
Definition · paragraph 1
T h r o u g h t h e a n o n y m o u s h i s t o r i e s o f c o r p s e a n d t h e H i s t o r y o f D e a t h ( A n a d d e n d u m t o D e c a y ) b y B a s i l i s k Posted by blue.beard: I have a little trouble following your polysyllabic disertation, but imo, death and decay can be studied from several different approaches. Ecological: Decay is the process of recycling those materials used by the former living.
Definition · paragraph 2
Hope this very brief reply clarifies my discussions to some extent. My project is started with the history of corpse management and handling which returns to ancient Persia and Çatal Hüyük (7400 BCE) in Anatolian plateau, also the rest of other civilizations at that time.
Definition · paragraph 4
I've discussed how in ancient Persia corpse was the Other of this simulated death (a mal-death) and its demon was Druj- (a female name from indic root: 'lie' and 'to Blacken' = Mother of Abominations); the ultimate project of the Magi was to erase (sanitize) the corpse-fiend (Druj- Nasu) from all recesses of life ...
Style · paragraph 4
The project of this influential Book was not against Death but a contamination, a chaos or an unimaginable mess through which everything becomes lie, a blackened Thing and a free-play line of horror, everything becomes anonymous to the eyes of Power (P=1) and the State, so the architecturized death by which they communicate with the zero-dimensional Death.
Appears in sections
Reza Negarestani and Inhumanism Primary section
Negarestani, inhumanism, and the philosophical afterlives that extend beyond shorthand accelerationism.