The architecture and surfaces of Reza Negarestani's Cyclonopedia

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This paper explores the invocations of architecture and landscape through readings of surface, solid and space within a specific creative textual work: Iranian philosopher <i>Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia</i>: 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 <i>Cyclonopedia</i> 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, <i>What is Philosophy?</i>, in which they also refer to philos

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