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Umar Nizarudeen The cyclical temporality of Indo-Iranian notions of metempsychosis lends itself to speculative fiction. The work of the Iranian thinker Reza Negarestani is interesting for its melding of petro-fiction with carbon lifecycles. The convoluted movement of energy and life in `Cyclonopedia’ cursorily lingers on theory. This visceral yet short excursus allows us an insight …

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An Egyptian evolution

by rti_adminon February 23, 2012March 20, 20230

Kancha Ilaiah (First published in February 2011) The Egyptian revolution, perhaps, would be to the Islamic world what the French Revolution was to the Christian world. The Western intellectual predilection that the Islamic world is trapped in feudal Islamic dictatorships is likely to be disproved with this revolution. In fact, Western thinkers forget that the …