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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 18
ORGANIZERS: Armen Avanessian (Philosopher/Editor: Poetics, Literary Theory, Art), Berlin Reza Negarestani (Philosopher: Rationality, Navigation, Functionalism), New York Pete Wolfendale (Philosopher: Rationality, Language, Freedom), Sunderland
Definition · paragraph 21
DAY PRINCIPAL SPEAKERS FIRST SESSION SECOND SESSION Tuesday, July 1st Reza Negarestani The Matheme of Navigation Engineering through Navigation Wednesday, July 2nd Pete Wolfendale Freedom and Reason Navigation and Representation 1st Evening Event Panel: Avanessian, Negarestani, et. al.
Definition · paragraph 8
This is to say that the resurrection of universalism as an emancipatory vector is oriented by a renewed commitment to rationalism, and that the relationship between local and global is elaborated by means of a movement from abstract to concrete spaces: from the space of reasons to the space of freedoms.
Definition · paragraph 8
It is on this basis that we must reconceive emancipation in navigational terms, supplementing the parochial cartography of injustice not only with our most abstract resources for analysing space, but with a willingness to treat these resources as constituting their own abstract spaces.
Definition · paragraph 8
The reactivation of enlightenment universalism can no longer safely ignore the particular by turning toward the universal, but must aim to trace trajectories that pass from the local to the global. It is on this basis that we must reconceive emancipation in navigational terms, supplementing the parochial cartography of injustice not only with our most abstract resources for analysing space, but with a willingness to treat these resources as constituting their own abstract spaces.
Appears in sections
Reza Negarestani and Inhumanism Primary section
Negarestani, inhumanism, and the philosophical afterlives that extend beyond shorthand accelerationism.