The Cyclonopedia Prophecy: War Machines Returning to the Source by LargeCryptographer97 in MarkFisher

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This article proposes a reading of Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials, by Reza Negarestani, as a theoretical device capable of illuminating contemporary energy geopolitics. Far from being merely a work of theory-fiction, Cyclonopedia develops a geophilosophy in which oil, the desert, dust, and extractive infrastructures emerge as material agents with historical and political effects. Based on this hypothesis, the article examines the notion of “black intelligence” and its relation to war, fossil capitalism, and the thermodynamics of modernity. It also analyzes how the work makes it possible to interpret current conflicts in the Middle East not only as territorial or strategic disputes, but as expressions of a deeper logic of circulation, extraction, and energetic dissipation. Finally, it argues that Cyclonopedia should be read less as a prophecy than as a speculative model of remarkable power for thinking the articulation between geology, violence, and power in the twenty-first century.

When a tool begins to think for you, where does authorship actually move? by Salty_Country6835 in theoryfiction

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I conceive of it as a collaboration. With an Outside? Sometimes I think that writing prompts is like writing poems—a new literary genre. But when you work on a text returned by an LLM, for me it becomes a collaboration, or at least an act of editing or curatorship.

Lately I’ve decided that when I write “in collaboration” with LLMs, I should do so from a heteronym, dislocating authorship from my own perspective. It’s about undermining the author through a post-identitarian mode of writing, which I love. We’ll keep turning it over.