Omnicide: Mania, Fatality, and the Future-in-Delirium

Omnicide: Mania, Fatality, and the Future-in-Delirium Jason Bahbak MohagheghMarch 2019Urbanomic/SequenceForeword by Robin MackayPaperback 115x175mm, 488pp.ISBN 978-0-9975674-6-5 Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh’s Omnicide offers readers a view into a unique philosophy of delirium, mania, and vitalist annihilation: the startling revelation that everything that is, should not be. Omnicide is a singular kind of taxonomy, a teratology of thought-creatures that dovetails around his chosen writers, from the revelatory self-abnegation of Forugh Farrokhzad to Sadeq Hedayat, the poète maudite of modern Iran. These and other “poets of the lost cause” come together in a compelling book that is a strange hybrid of Aristotle’s Categories, Borges's Book of Imaginary Beings, and the Necronomicon.  —Eugene Thacker, author of Infinite Resignation and In the Dust of This Planet What kind of circumstances provoke an obsessive focus on the most minute object or activity? And what causes such mania to blossom into