商品描述
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 is closed 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. In his relentless cataloguing of the myriad figures and portents of omnicidal doom, Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh resumes the offensive of those writers, artists, and thinkers for whom the fiercest creative incandescence is only kindled in the shadow of certain doom.
Amid war cries and lullabies, mages, wolves and pelicans, sabres and crystals, drones and soul-stealers, in settings ranging from the opium den to the Qatari luxury hotels, with his unique style and methodology, his dizzying breadth of references, and his implacable will to follow the most deranging lines of thought and evoke the most startling images, Mohaghegh draws the reader into territories disturbing and unfamiliar, atmospheres delicate and grotesque, moods morbid yet life-affirming, in a book that evokes fever and exudes dead calm.
The utterly absorbing music of this 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.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
一部受中東詩歌啟發的狂熱幻想家地獄目錄。
在這部新作中，概念的闡述、敘事和詩學在沙漠的地獄熱中融合，Omnicide的循環以一種毀滅、欺騙和遊戲的哲學結束，直面不可避免的、致命的和無限的事物。
一系列受中東詩歌和文學片段啟發的受控燃燒，Omnicide II 讓我們認識到一群新的狂熱幻想家，從Selemaniac到Crystallomaniac，從Bibliomaniac到Aeromaniac。在他對無數的毀滅性預兆和人物的無情編纂中，Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh重啟了那些作家、藝術家和思想家的攻勢，對他們而言，最激烈的創造性光輝僅在某種毀滅的陰影中點燃。
在戰吼和搖籃曲之間，法師、狼和鵜鶘，軍刀和水晶，無人機和靈魂竊取者，場景從鴉片窟到卡塔爾的奢華酒店，Mohaghegh以其獨特的風格和方法論、令人眩暈的參考廣度，以及不屈不撓的意志，追隨最令人困惑的思維線索，喚起最驚人的意象，將讀者帶入令人不安且陌生的領域，氛圍既微妙又荒謬，情緒雖然病態卻又肯定生命，這本書喚起了熱病並散發出死寂的平靜。
這種寫作的音樂完全吸引人，既使人安靜又令人不安——一部當代的死靈之書，一個無窮無盡的災難、災害、毀滅和破壞的食譜寶庫，皆以最強烈的創造為名。
作者簡介
Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Babson College. His focus is on tracking experimental thought in the so-called Middle East and the West, with particular attention to exploring concepts of chaos, violence, illusion, silence, sectarianism, madness, disappearance, and apocalyptic writing. He is the author of The Chaotic Imagination (2010); Inflictions (2012); The Radical Unspoken (2013); Insurgent, Poet, Mystic, Sectarian (2015); Omnicide: Mania, Fatality, and the Future-In-Delirium (Urbanomic/Sequence Press, 2019); and Night: A Philosophy of the After-Dark (2020).
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
傑森·巴哈克·莫哈基赫（Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh）是巴布森學院（Babson College）比較文學的副教授。他的研究重點在於追蹤所謂中東與西方的實驗性思想，特別關注混沌、暴力、幻覺、沉默、宗派主義、瘋狂、消失和啟示文學等概念的探索。他是《混沌的想像》（The Chaotic Imagination, 2010）、《傷害》（Inflictions, 2012）、《激進的無言》（The Radical Unspoken, 2013）、《叛亂者、詩人、神秘主義者、宗派主義者》（Insurgent, Poet, Mystic, Sectarian, 2015）、《全滅：狂熱、致命性與未來的癲狂》（Omnicide: Mania, Fatality, and the Future-In-Delirium, Urbanomic/Sequence Press, 2019）以及《夜：黑暗之後的哲學》（Night: A Philosophy of the After-Dark, 2020）的作者。
