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Fine edition
– sold out
Limited to 28 copies
Hand bound in full black Niger goatskin, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, silk ribbon, and presented in a custom slipcase.
Standard hardback edition
– £55
Limited to 500 copies
Bound in black ‘metal paper’ with abyssal blue foiling on the front and spine, with deep blue endpapers. Printed in black and dark blue ink on 150 gsm paper.
Contents
Prologue
I. Principles of Evil
II. Diagrams of Evil
III. Libraries of Evil
Epilogue: Lullaby
Description
Evil: A study of lost techniques by philosopher Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh is a theoretical investigation into the aesthetics and intensities of cruelty, mapping evil in its minor prisms of fascination. Mohaghegh explores evil as an infinitesimal complex of techniques – subtle inflections of possibility and obscure typologies of influence that bring together the rarest philosophies of oblivion, decadence, cruelty, derangement, ecstasy, atrocity, rage, and mystery alongside the most intricate poetic genres of the rant, the elegy, the riddle, the whisper, the threat, the question, silence, and the nocturne.
Through a labyrinthine series of notes, diagrams, and outer limit speculations, this book attempts to uncover those concealed fragments which together form the architecture of another world altogether. A singular work of sustained intensity.
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