Omnicide

Download or Read eBook Omnicide PDF written by Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Omnicide
Author :
Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 489
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780997567465
ISBN-13 : 0997567465
Rating : 4/5 (65 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Omnicide by : Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh

Book excerpt: A fragmentary catalogue of poetic derangements that reveals the ways in which mania communicates with an extreme will to annihilation What kind of circumstances provoke an obsessive focus on the most minute object or activity? And what causes such mania to blossom into the lethal conviction that everything must be annihilated? There is no turning away from the imperative to study this riddle in all its mystifying complexity and its disturbing contemporary resonance—to trace the obscure passage between a lone state of delirium and the will to world-erasure.. A fragmentary catalogue of the thousand-and-one varieties of manic disposition (augomania, dromomania, catoptromania, colossomania…), Omnicide enters the chaotic imaginations of the most significant poetic talents of the Middle East in order to instigate a new discourse on obsession, entrancement, excess, and delirium. Placing these voices into direct conversation, Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh excavates an elaborate network of subterranean ideas and interpretive chambers, byways, and burrows by which mania communicates with fatality. Like secret passages leading from one of the multitudinous details of a bustling Persian miniature to the blank burning immanence of the desert, each is a contorted yet effective channel connecting some attractive universe (of adoration, worship, or astonishment) to the instinct for all-engulfing oblivion (through hatred, envy, indifference, rage, or forgetting). A captivating fractal of conceptual prisms in half-storytelling, half-theoretical prose, a rhythmic, poetic, insidious work that commands submission, Omnicide absorbs the reader into unfamiliar and estranging landscapes whose every subtle euphoric aspect threatens to become an irresistible invitation to the end of all things.


Omnicide Related Books

Omnicide
Language: en
Pages: 489
Authors: Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-06-11 - Publisher: MIT Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A fragmentary catalogue of poetic derangements that reveals the ways in which mania communicates with an extreme will to annihilation What kind of circumstances
Omnicide II
Language: en
Pages: 320
Authors: Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-05 - Publisher: MIT Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An infernal catalogue of manic visionaries, inspired by the poetry of the Middle East. In a new work in which conceptual elaboration, storytelling, and poetics
Elemental Disappearances
Language: en
Pages: 86
Authors: Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh
Categories: Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-28 - Publisher: punctum books

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"Elemental Disappearances casts a wanderer's eye upon an ever-expanding configuration of sites of disturbance. The things sought after are apparitional: they ap
New Literature and Philosophy of the Middle East
Language: en
Pages: 234
Authors: J. Mohaghegh
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-11-17 - Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Mohaghegh tracks the idea of 'chaos' into the contemporary philosophical and cultural imagination of the postcolonial world, exploring its vital role in the for
Revolutionary Bodies
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: K. S. Batmanghelichi
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-06-30 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Breasts, Hands and Faces : Gazing at Iran's Mediascape -- Red-Lights in Parks : a Social History of Park-E Razi -- Post-Revolutionary 'Prostitution' and its Dis