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Where can I find vaguely mystical leftist essays like this?
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You are literally the only other human being I know who has read Cyclonopedia. It so fucking good and I can't convince anyone to check it out
I know like two other people who have read it. Its a book with a small intended audience.
When I read it I would explain it to my partner and they would look at me like I was losing my mind lmao.
Have you ever found anything like it? I feel like anyone trying to emulate it would fall flat because it was compelling partly because it was pretty novel at the time. The only thing close for me is just reading a thousand plateaus, which has a similar unhinged quality lol
Honestly, no. I love stuff that is completely sui generis like that.
I agree about emulation. It is also emerges out of the moment where Deleuze and Guattari-influenced Accelerationist theory was all the rage, and that was the context that I read it in. No idea what someone picking it up now would make of it
I read it much later than that, but I first came across a quote of it in an essay a bit over a decade ago and never forgot it. The book is quite poetic. Anyone not familiar with the CCRU (particularly Land) stuff and D&G would definitely struggle a bit because he freely uses that kind of terminology, but I feel like the writing is compelling enough that someone could still enjoy it without.