- Title
- The architecture and surfaces of Reza Negarestani’s’ Cyclonopedia
- Creator
- Smith, Cathy; D'Occhio, Andrew
- Relation
- 29th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australian & New Zealand (SAHANZ XXIX 2012). Fabulation SAHANZ XXIX 2012: Myth, Nature, Heritage: The 29th Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australian & New Zealand (Launceston, Tas. 5-8 July, 2012) p. 1011-1021
- Publisher
- Society of Architectural Historians Australian & New Zealand (SAHANZ)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- This paper explores the invocations of architecture and landscape through readings of surface, solid and space within a specific creative textual work: Iranian philosopher Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia: complicity with anonymous materials. The philosophical notions of ‘fabulation’ and ‘creative fabulation’ are used as a conceptual framework to explore and characterise these readings. The paper suggests that the text’s creative readings of Middle Eastern architectures and landscapes are integral to a particular narrative within the Cyclonopedia text. The philosophical notions explored in this paper are primarily drawn from the writings of philosopher Gilles Deleuze, including the collaborative works he produced with psychoanalyst Félix Guattari. Deleuze and Guattari specifically refer to the notions of ‘fabulation’ or myth-making and ‘creative fabulation’ within their text, What is Philosophy?, in which they also refer to philosopher Henri Bergson’s original conception of fabulation. Thus the present paper will reference Bergson, concentrating on his text, The Two Sources of Morality.
- Subject
- architecture; landscape; Reza Negarestani; Cyclonopedia
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1356585
- Identifier
- uon:31724
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781862956582
- Language
- eng
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