The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (An Essay in Atheistic Religion)

5 best books like The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism (An Essay in Atheistic Religion) (Nick Land): The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?, Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials, The Trial of Gilles de Rais

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

Author

Thomas Ligotti

His fiction is known to be some of the most terrifying in the genre of supernatural horror, but Thomas Ligotti's first nonfiction book may be even scarier. Drawing on philosophy, literature, neuroscience, and other fields of study, Ligotti takes the penetrating lens of his imagination and turns it...

Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

Author	Gilles Deleuze
ISBN	0816612250

A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an essential text for feminists, literary theorists, social scientists, philosophers, and other interested in the problems of contemporary Western culture. "An important text in the rethinking of sexuality...

Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

Author	Mark Fisher
ISBN	1846943175

After 1989, capitalism has successfully presented itself as the only realistic political-economic system - a situation that the bank crisis of 2008, far from ending, actually compounded. The book analyses the development and principal features of this capitalist realism as a lived ideological...

Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials

Author	Reza Negarestani
ISBN	0980544009

At once a horror fiction, a work of speculative theology, an atlas of demonology, a political samizdat and a philosophic grimoire, CYCLONOPEDIA is work of theory-fiction on the Middle East, where horror is restlessly heaped upon horror. Reza Negarestani bridges the appalling vistas of contemporary...

The Trial of Gilles de Rais

Author	Georges Bataille
ISBN	1878923021

Georges Bataille presents the case of the most infamous villain of the Middle Ages: Gilles de Rais. Fascinated with the depths of human experience the meeting points of sexuality, violence, ritual, spirituality, and death Bataille examines with dispassionate clarity the legendary crimes, trials...