Exaltations in the Dead of Night with Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh Part I

<p><strong>&quot;Every storyteller harbours a secret desire to be the one who tells the last story, just as every maniac wishes to inscribe the last fateful madness on earth.&quot; </strong></p> <p><br></p> <p>In this episode with <strong>Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh </strong>we walk with vertigo to summon the authors who play at the borders of insanity and intoxication. We get into the territories of the night and mania, both of which are the premise of Jason&#39;s most recent books: <a href="https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/night-philosophy-after-dark" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>Night: A Philosophy of the After-Dark</strong></a><strong> &amp; </strong><a href="https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/night-volume2-philosophy-last-world" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>Night: A Philosophy of the Last World</strong></a> and <a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780997567465/omnicide/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>Omnicide: Mania, Fatality, and the Future-in-Delirium</strong></a><strong> &amp; </strong><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781733628167/omnicide-ii/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferer"><strong>Omnicide II: Mania, Doom, and the Future-in-Deception</strong></a><strong>.</strong></p> <p><br></p> <p>Topics discussed include: exploring the dark poetics of the avant-garde, forbidden literature, and the final words of poets that lean into the dark and speak in apocalyptic tones, manic obsession, cosmic intoxication, opium dreams, mania redeeming nihilism, standing on the threshold of the abyss, embracing relentlessness as an aesthetic to achieve undeniability, and shunning sanity in favor of embracing madness.</p> <p><br></p> <p><em>Omnicide</em> is <em>“A captivating fractal of conceptual prisms in half-storytelling, half-theoretical prose, a rhythmic, poetic, insidious work that commands submission, Omnicide absorbs the reader into unfamiliar and estranging landscapes whose every subtle euphoric aspect threatens to