Oil

Anointed with oil: how Christianity and crude made modern AmericagNegerestani wrote on oil.
Negarestani places humanity as a very temporary and superficial surface phenomenon on an unknowably ancient and unfathomable Earth that hosts Oil, Dust, War and even a blackened, rotting Sun deep inside it, all of which are manifestations of the Outside...an Outside which both inspired sorcerous cults in the time of the Zoroastrian dynasties and the Assyrian Empire and today drives fanatical jihadis and oil-thirsty Western capitalist nations towards each other in all-consuming, unwinnable War, whose purpose is totally alien to any human ideology but is dedicated to liberating the Desert itself.