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Omnicide
Mania, Fatality, and the Future-in-delirium
Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh
MIT Press · Print & ebook · June 11, 2019
Reading lane: Comparative Literature
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?
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Future in Delirium
A layered critical study of mania, fatality, and a future that feels slightly unhinged.
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- mania, fatality, future-in-delirium
- critical essays with philosophical bite
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- conceptual density
- political and philosophical argument
Book Details
- Authors
- Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Published
- June 11, 2019
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Comparative Literature · Political Philosophy
- Reading lane
- Comparative Literature
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Comparative Literature
Political Philosophy
International Relations
About This Book
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...
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