Study guide for Cyclonopedia?

February 15, 2010 2:33 PM

I would like a study guide for a dilettante reading Reza Negarestani's Cyclonopedia.

I'm reading Cyclonopedia for pleasure and out of curiosity. I'm about 60 pages in, and I'm finding the process both interesting and mysterious. However, when it comes to philosophy and theory, I must confess that I am a complete and total dilettante. I enjoy reading, say, Kierkegaard and Žižek, because they are fun to read and I am able to glean from them some very interesting thoughts and questions. However, I am pretty damn ignorant of Deleuze and Guattari's work, so Cyclonopedia's seeming reliance on their work makes the reading fairly dense. I've been consulting some solid online guides, but this is no way to run a railroad.

What would be a good, structured reading guide to enhance my pleasure and learning from reading Cyclonopedia? If the answer is that I simply must read Deleuze and Guattari's main works firsthand as an entryway, then what supplements would be recommended for reading alongside those primary works?

posted by Sticherbeast to Religion & Philosophy (1 answer total)

Read some D&G, supplemented by Brian Massumi's A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia. (My partner is of the opinion that you will be no less bewildered by Negarestani after doing so - but endorses this recommendation nonetheless).
posted by Bergamot at 8:29 PM on February 15, 2010 [1 favorite]