Petroleum as a space for non-translation: Hikmet, Negarestani, Parshchikov

In 1927, Nâzım Hikmet composed several poems based on his impressions of visit to Azerbaijani capital, the city Baku. They will be included in collection Song Sun-drinkers (1928) and soon translated into Russian. The Baku cycle was one first attempts at a symbolic representation petroleum Russian poetry, many ways foreshadowing later poetics subject, which develop material only 2000s. One can look these by as create philosophy petroleum, find its most large-scale embodiment philosophical novel “Cyclonopedia” Reza Negarestani, where constitutes new type subjectivity, simultaneously fluid explosive. On other hand, image play key role Alexei Parshchikov’s poem same name, also discern echoes this Hikmet’s cycle. For all authors, acts radical expression logic non-translation: it is condensed memory antiquity, cannot directly accessed; mystery revealed because, sense, contains no mystery. Such paradoxical semiotics leads three authors idea that alien human world has special inhuman agency.