Omnicide II: Mania, Doom, and the Future-in-Deception

Omnicide II: Mania, Doom, and the Future-in-Deception Jason Bahbak MohagheghJuly 2023Urbanomic/SequencePaperback 115x175mm, 316pp.ISBN 978-1-7336281-6-7 Desire moves from curiosity to fascination to obsession to mania. Mania focuses on its object-objective, consigning the rest to nothingness. At the limit man releases extraordinary potentialities and also turns destructive and self-destructive. Mohaghegh does not aim to bring inner subjective structures to light; instead he identifies the objects of curiosity-obsession-mania. He explores explosions, demons, fire, books, blackness, drowning, headlessness, sleeplessness, blindness, wind, silence, nakedness, idols, scars, caves, imperfection, pain, blood, weeping, ruins, claws, deserts and many more.  —Alphonso Lingis 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 int