Omnicide 2: A Philosophy of Doom with Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh

Jason Bahbek Mohaghegh joins us to discuss Omnicide 2, out soon
from Urbanomic.

From Urbanomic/MIT Press: 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 are fused in the infernal heat of the desert, the cycle
of Omnicide draws to a close with a philosophy of doom,
deception, and the game, plunging headlong into the inevitable,
the fatal, and the infinite.

A series of controlled combustions fuelled by fragments drawn
from the poetry and literature of the Middle-East, Omnicide II
introduces us to a new cast of manic visionaries, from the
Selemaniac to the Crystallomaniac, the Bibliomaniac to the
Aeromaniac. Amid war cries and lullabies, mages, wolves and
pelicans, sabers and crystals, drones and soul-stealers, and in
settings ranging from opium dens to Qatari luxury hotels,
Mohaghegh's unique style and methodology, dizzying breadth of
references, and implacable will to follow the most deranging
lines of thought and evoke the most startling images, draw the
reader into territories disturbing and unfamiliar, atmospheres
delicate and grotesque, moods morbid yet life-affirming.

The utterly absorbing music of Mohaghegh's writing both lulls and
disquiets—a contemporary Necronomicon, an inexhaustible treasury
of recipes for disaster, catastrophe, ruination and destruction,
all in the name of the most intense creation.

The book:
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781733628167/omnicide-ii/

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