# PHILOSOPHY /// Leper Creativity: Cyclonopedia Symposium I at the New School (NYC)
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Parsons assistant dean, Ed Keller with Nicola Masciandaro and Eugene Thacker are organizing on March 11st, the first symposium around a book I have been writing about several time on this blog: Cyclonopedia by Iranian Philosopher Reza Negarestani.
The symposium is entitled Leper Creativity and the presentations will be organized in the following way:
Alisa Andrasek -Embodied Patterns / Non-Human Agency in Design
Zach Blas – Opening Queerness
Melanie Doherty – Non-Oedipal Networks and the Inorganic Unconscious
Benjamin Bratton – Peak Oil Apophenia & the Hyperbolic Archipelago
Alexander Galloway – “Light” and Light
Perry Hall – TBA
Ed Keller – TBA
Kate Marshall – Cyclonopedia as Novel
Nicola Masciandaro – Gourmandized in the Abattoir of Openness
Eugene Thacker – Black Infinity; or, Oil Discovers Humans
McKenzie Wark – An Inhuman Fiction of Forces
Ben Woodard – The Untimely (and Unshapely) Decomposition of Onto-Epistemological Solidity: Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia as Metaphysics
Previous article about Cyclonopedia on The Funambulist:
– CYCLONOPEDIA. Complicity with Anonymous Materials by Reza Negarestani
– Sympathy with the obstacle / Parkour in Gaza
– Exhumation & Architecture in Cyclonopedia by Reza Negarestani