{"title":"Books by Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781733628167","title":"Omnicide II","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn infernal catalogue of manic visionaries, inspired by the poetry of the Middle East.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA series of controlled combustions fuelled by fragments drawn from the poetry and literature of the Middle-East, \u003ci\u003eOmnicide II\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eAmid 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe 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.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56303261679989,"sku":"9781733628167","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781733628167_f16f5887-bbf2-4424-a43f-2b03c4f4865c.jpg?v=1786024494"},{"product_id":"9781789049411","title":"Night, Volume II","description":"This book follows and expands on the boundaries of its precursor Night: A Philosophy of the After-Dark by presenting a series of new conceptual territories, figures, sources, images and imaginative possibilities. The central idea of Night is contemplated in its intricate relation to space, silence, cruelty and secrecy while also taking thought toward the futural limits of a vision of the last world.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56306865570165,"sku":"9781789049411","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781789049411_b6dae28d-78ce-4382-90e7-ed4d93d7cdfe.jpg?v=1786027199"},{"product_id":"omnicide","title":"Omnicide","description":"\u003cb\u003eA fragmentary catalogue of poetic derangements that reveals the ways in which mania communicates with an extreme will to annihilation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat 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..\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA fragmentary catalogue of the thousand-and-one varieties of manic disposition (augomania, dromomania, catoptromania, colossomania…), \u003ci\u003eOmnicide\u003c\/i\u003e 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).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eA captivating fractal of conceptual prisms in half-storytelling, half-theoretical prose, a rhythmic, poetic, insidious work that commands submission, \u003ci\u003eOmnicide\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57483264262517,"sku":"9780997567465","price":27.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780997567465.jpg?v=1786178388"},{"product_id":"night-a-philosophy-of-the-after-dark","title":"Night","description":"This short book engages the myriad dimensions of Night, through ancient rituals, medieval storytelling, modern philosophy, and futuristic images, in order to explore the human experience of the after-dark. It thereby tracks Night through the prisms of its most fascinating practitioners: namely, those who keep strange hours and navigate the various potentialities of nocturnal experience (both of terror and enchantment). The Thief’s Night; The Runaway’s Night; The Drunkard’s Night; The Insomniac’s Night; The Revolutionary’s Night; The Lunatic’s Night; The Sorcerer’s Night. Undoubtedly, each of these conceptual figures provides a unique gateway into understanding the powerful sensorial effects of evening, as well as its vast connections to larger questions of time, space, fear, nothingness, desire, death, forgetting, vision, secrecy, criminality, monstrosity, and the body.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57487919972725,"sku":"9781789042771","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781789042771.jpg?v=1786355141"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-jason-bahbak-mohaghegh.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}