Reza Negarestani: The Blackened Specters of Depth

Lecture by writer and philosopher Reza Negarestani. Introduction by Stephen Zepke

Framed as a revisitation of Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials (re.press, 2008), a book in which the logic of petroleum extraction serves as a theoretical and fictional device to connect the socio-political dynamics of the Middle East, the War on Terror, Capitalism, and modern and archaic myths of creation, this presentation focuses on a different angle concerning the cryptic tales of petromodernity or modernity at large.

In the framework of the exhibition Reflecting Oil. Petroculture in Transformation and in collaboration with Weibel Institute for Digital Cultures (University of Applied Arts Vienna)