Reza Negarestani

Negarestani has been a regular contributor to Collapse, as well as other print and web publications such as CTheory.{{cite web|url=http://www.ctheory.net/articles.aspx?id=396 |title=CTheory.net |publisher=CTheory.net |date= |accessdate=2013-12-24}} On March 11, 2011, faculty from Brooklyn College and The New School organized a symposium to discuss Cyclonopedia titled Leper Creativity.{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/LeperCreativityCyclonopediaSymposium4thPanel |title=Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive |date= |accessdate=2013-12-24}} Later on in the year, Punctum books published a book with the same title that included essays, articles, artworks, and documents from or related to the symposium.{{cite web|url=http://punctumbooks.com/titles/leper-creativity-cyclonopedia-symposium/ |title=Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium |publisher=punctum books |date= |accessdate=2013-12-24}} In 2011, he co-edited Collapse's issue VII with Robin Mackay titled "Culinary Materialism".{{cite web|url=http://www.urbanomic.com/pub_collapse7.php |title=Collapse Vol. VII: Culinary Materialism |publisher=Urbanomic |date= |accessdate=2013-12-24}} In 2012, Negarestani collaborated with Florian Hecker on an artwork titled "Chimerization" that was included in the dOCUMENTA (13) exhibition.{{Cite web|url=https://d13.documenta.de/|title=dOCUMENTA (13) - dOCUMENTA (13)|website=d13.documenta.de}} He has since written librettos for a series of full-length albums based on Hecker's concept of 'chimerization'.

After being associated with the philosophical movement of speculative realism for several years, Negarestani has since lectured and written about rationalist universalism beginning with the evolution of the modern system of knowledge and advancing toward contemporary philosophies of rationalism, their procedures as well as their demands for special forms of human conduct.{{Citation needed|date=December 2020}}

After going through different philosophical phases starting with Nick Land and subsequently speculative realism,{{cite web |url=https://www.re-press.org/book-files/OA_Version_Speculative_Turn_9780980668346.pdf |title=The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism|date=2011 |website=www.re-press.org |access-date=2020-12-24}} Negarestani turned to rationalist inhumanism, according to which the concept of the human is under-explored and is a matter of theoretical and practical investigation, the results of which will lead to a thoroughgoing new conception of the human that stands in opposition to classical versions of humanism and human essentialism.{{Cite web|url=https://www.e-flux.com/journal/53/59893/the-labor-of-the-inhuman-part-ii-the-inhuman/|title=The Labor of the Inhuman, Part II: The Inhuman|website=www.e-flux.com}} Research paradigms such as artificial general intelligence and neuroscience, according to Negarestani, provide insights as how the concept of the human is underdeveloped and must be understood as a subject of critical construction. Accordingly, Negarestani's philosophical project deals with what he calls a philosophy of intelligence as in contrast to the philosophy of mind. For Negarestani, the philosophy of intelligence goes beyond the philosophy of mind insofar as the concept of intelligence is beholden to a system of socially constituted thoughts and practices through which the intelligible is recognized.{{Cite web|url=https://www.neroeditions.com/docs/reza-negarestani-engineering-the-world-crafting-the-mind/|title=Engineering the World, Crafting the Mind | NERO|website=NERO Editions}}{{Cite web|url=https://plijournal.com/volumes/30-restoration-and-resistance/|title=30. Restoration and Resistance (2019) | Pli|website=plijournal.com}} However, for Negarestani the term {{em|intelligence}} remains a philosophically vague concept, an explicandum. With a nod to Rudolf Carnap's project of explication, Negarestani instead proposes a conceptual engineering whereby the concept of intelligence is progressively replaced by its explicata, or refined concepts which methodically address different issues with regard to the question of "what is intelligence".{{Cite web|url=https://www.urbanomic.com/document/reengineering-philosophy/|title=Reengineering Philosophy|website=Urbanomic}} For Negarestani, such issues span ontological, epistemological, methodological, technical and axiological concerns. Negarestani's emphasis on the necessary link between what we mean by intelligence and what it takes to render the world intelligible borrows elements from transcendental philosophy, German idealism and systematic skepticism.{{Citation needed|date=December 2020}}

Negarestani's blog, Toy Philosophy, "focus[es] on various threads—some still loose and some already converged—of [his] philosophical research".{{cite web|url=https://toyphilosophy.com/2018/01/24/returning-to-the-age-of-blogging/ |title=Returning to the Age of Blogging |publisher=toyphilosophy.com |date=2018-01-24 |accessdate=2018-04-02}}

• [http://re-press.org/books/cyclonopedia-complicity-with-anonymous-materials/ Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials] (Re.Press, 2008)
• (edited with Robin Mackay) [https://www.urbanomic.com/book/collapse-7/ Collapse Volume VII: Culinary Materialism] (Urbanomic, 2012)
• {{Cite book |last=Negarestani |first=Reza |title=Torture Concrete: Jean-Luc Moulène and the Protocol of Abstraction |publisher=Sequence Press |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-9832169-7-1 |location=London}}
• {{Cite book |last=Negarestani |first=Reza |title=Intelligence and Spirit |publisher=Urbanomic & Sequence Press |year=2018 |isbn=978-0-9975674-0-3 |location=London}}
• {{Cite book |last=Negarestani |first=Reza |title=Chronosis |last2=Mackay |first2=Robin |last3=Tilford |first3=Keith |publisher=Urbanomic |year=2021 |isbn=978-1-913029-54-8 |location=London}}
• {{Cite book |last=Negarestani |first=Reza |title=Abducting the Outside: Collected Writings 2003–2018 |publisher=Urbanomic & Sequence Press |year=2023 |isbn=978-0-9975674-8-9 |location=London}}

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• [https://toyphilosophy.com/ "Toy philosophy", Reza Negarestani's blog]
• [https://www.neroeditions.com/docs/reza-negarestani-engineering-the-world-crafting-the-mind/ Interview with Fabio Gironi at Nero Editions]
• [https://www.urbanomic.com/document/reengineering-philosophy/ Conversation with Robin Mackay at Urbanomic]
• [http://questionofwill.com/en/reza-negarestani-2/ The Question of Will]
• [https://www.glass-bead.org/research-platform/three-nightmares-inductive-mind/?lang=enview Three Nightmares of the Inductive Mind]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REG6qIQbQpQ Inhuman Symposium at Fridericianum]
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xABnrozTyNk Cybernetics: Intelligence and Imagination at École normale supérieure]

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