Reza Negarestani is an Iranian artist, writer and philosopher who has pioneered the genre of ‘theory-fiction’ with his expansive Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials. He has written widely online and in print on contemporary theory, philosophy, and politics, notably in journals like Collapse and CTheory. He is currently working on two books, Beyond the Wall of the State (co-authored with Manabrata Guha) and The Mortiloquist.