Cyclonopedia is theoretical-fiction novel by Iranian philosopher and writer Reza Negarestani. Hailed by novelists, philosophers and cinematographers, Negarestani’s work is the first horror and science fiction book coming from and written on the Middle East.

'The Middle East is a sentient entity—it is alive!’ concludes renegade Iranian archaeologist Dr. Hamid Parsani, before disappearing under mysterious circumstances. The disordered notes he leaves behind testify to an increasingly deranged preoccupation with oil as the ‘lubricant’ of historical and political narratives.
A young American woman arrives in Istanbul to meet a pseudonymous online acquaintance who never arrives. Discovering a strange manunoscript in her hotel room, she follows up its cryptic clues only to discover more plot-holes, and begins to wonder whether her friend was a fictional quantity all along.
Meanwhile, as the War on Terror escalates, the US is dragged into an asymmetrical engagement with occultures whose principles are ancient, obscure, and saturated in oil. It is as if war itself is feeding upon the warmachines, leveling cities into the desert, seducing the aggressors into the dark heart of oil ...
At once a horror fiction, a work of speculative theology, an atlas of demonology, a political samizdat and a philosophic grimoire, CYCLONOPEDIA is work of theory-fiction on the Middle East, where horror is restlessly heaped upon horror. Reza Negarestani bridges the appalling vistas of contemporary world politics and the War on Terror with the archaeologies of the Middle East and the natural history of the Earth itself. CYCLONOPEDIA is a middle-eastern Odyssey, populated by archeologists, jihadis, oil smugglers, Delta Force officers, heresiarchs, corpses of ancient gods and other puppets. The journey to the Underworld begins with petroleum basins and the rotting Sun, continuing along the tentacled pipelines of oil, and at last unfolding in the desert, where monotheism meets the Earth’s tarry dreams of insurrection against the Sun.

Mood

This guy is cringe, but the data is good.

That random labyrinth that Iamblichus claimed was under the sands of Egypt? Real. Confirmed. 💪🏻🧠

https://youtu.be/NVLrQ0twtDA?si=LpJjog65x4Ei6ROw

Let it begin 🙏🏻😈

https://youtu.be/Tt7TUGu3veY?si=tNJlKPzF-YOJqhtt

Algis Uždavinys’s Orpheus and the Roots of Platonism argues that Platonic philosophy is deeply rooted in Orphic, Egyptian, and mystery traditions, portraying philosophy not as abstract reasoning but as a sacred, initiatory path of spiritual ascent. Drawing on Neoplatonists and Hermetic thought, Uždavinys emphasizes divine madness, theurgy, and symbolic myth as essential to understanding Plato’s metaphysics, challenging modern secular interpretations by restoring the sacred and esoteric dimensions of ancient philosophy.

In 1965, CIA lost plutonium capsules in Himalayas which, if damaged, could contaminate the water supply for 600 million Indians

https://redd.it/1pn4i8s
@r_Damnthatsinteresting

What if......

Let it begin 🙏🏻😈

https://youtu.be/Tt7TUGu3veY?si=tNJlKPzF-YOJqhtt

the dif b/w "full of" and "the" shit

Duality of Man

Really random question; does anyone have that greentext where a guy does his Internship on Epstein Island?