This week we read two short chapters from Cyclonopedia — “Mistmare” and “Excursus V (Fog Oil: A Retrospection on Obscurants)”.
No written intro or notes from me this week. My main takeaway from these chapters was the tension between Reza’s obscurantism and his account of the history of philosophy, demonstrating — once again — how this book so often does what it is trying to describe. Between its content and its mode of expression, the book continues to play chicken with its own dissolution. In Cyclonopedia, all that is solid melts into “aer”.