According to the classic theory of fossil fuels (i.e. excluding Thomas Gold’s theory of the Deep Hot Biosphere), petroleum was formed as a Tellurian entity under unimaginable pressure and heat in the absence of oxygen and between the strata, in absolute isolation—a typical Freudian Oedipal case, then … Petroleum’s hadean formation developed a satanic sentience through the politics of in-between which inevitably ‘wells up’ through the God-complex deposited in the strata (the logic of ‘double-articulation, the double-pincer’ according to Deleuze and Guattari), to the surface. Envenomed by the totalitarian logic of the tetragrammaton, yet chemically and morphologically depraving and traumatizing Divine logic, petroleum’s autonomous line of emergence is twisted beyond recognition. Emerged under such conditions, petroleum possesses tendencies for mass intoxication on pandemic scales (different from but corresponding to capitalism’s voodoo economy and other types of global possession systems). #Petroleum is able to gather the necessary geo-political undercurrents (subterranean or blobjective narrations of politics, economy, religion, etc.) required for the process of Erathication or the moving of the Earth’s body toward the Tellurian Omega—the utter degradation of the Earth as a Whole. As the ultimate Desert or Xerodrome…
📖 Reza Negarestani, “Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials”
