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Reza Negarestani is a philosopher. He has contributed extensively to journals and anthologies and lectured at numerous international universities and institutes. His current philosophical project is focused on rationalist universalism beginning with the evolution of the modern system of knowledge and advancing toward contemporary philosophies of rationalism, their procedures as well as their demands for special forms of human conduct. He is the author of Cyclonopedia (re.press, 2008) and Intelligence and Spirit (MIT Press, Urbanomic, 2018).
Mohammad Salemy is an independent Berlin-based artist, critic and curator from Canada. He holds a BFA from Emily Carr University and an MA in Critical Curatorial Studies from the University of British Columbia. He has shown his works in Ashkal Alwan's Home Works 7 (Beirut, 2015), Witte de With (Rotterdam, 2015) and Robot Love (Eindhoven, 2018). His writings have been published in e-flux, Flash Art, Third Rail, Brooklyn Rail, Ocula, Arts of the Working Class and Spike. Salemy's curatorial experiment For Machine Use Only was included in the 11th edition of Gwangju Biennale (2016). Together with a changing cast, he forms the artist collective Alphabet Collection. Salemy is the Organizer at The New Centre for Research & Practice. He has been the cofounding Organizer of The New Centre since 2014 and the editor-in-chief of its publishing arm, Triple Ampersand. He is also the editor of "For Machine Use Only: Contemplations on Algorithmic Epistemology" (&&&, 2016) and "Model is the Message: Incredible Machines Conference 2022" (&&&, 2023).
Summit03: «... And the Rest Were Those Nomads Who Found the Black Holes.»
Our approach to perceiving the world starts from our concept of the Earth, the geographical plateaus, and intensities that form our reality. In A Thousand Plateaus, Deleuze and Guattari expands on the meaning of territory and the forces that encode the earth into territories and decode them. The third edition of The Tehran Summit, titled «... And the Rest Were Those Nomads Who Found the Black Holes.», is dedicated to a state of in-betweenness; moving beyond set concepts of territories, disciplines, and dichotomies, and delving into the unknown.
Summit 03 will probe a geohistorical terrain where the anthropocenic concepts of history, chronology, and logical order is replaced by embracing a full spectrum of forces at play; human, non-human, organic, and inorganic all caught in the flux of creation and dissolution. In this narrative, space becomes not merely a backdrop for human production but a dynamic construction of relations where beings, materials, and non-definable forces converge, each contributing and complicit to an ever- evolving Chaosmos. In this geohistory, geological formations, climate upheavals, social turbulences, and economic shocks are all intersected, bridging deep time with human history and expanding our concepts of past events and latent futures.
The nomad here becomes an embodiment of a mindset that defies territorialized space, and static values, wielding the deleuzian war-machine against the state apparatus and its axioms. As agents of deterritorialization, the nomads embrace a rhizomatic, peripheral mode of thought/living that resists hierarchies, seeking lines of flight and new realities. Departing from this web of thoughts, Summit 03, will delve into entangled layers of geographies, histories, spaces, and time to map out new exits and potentials – those black holes where new desires and possibilities emerge.
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