An important literary and philosophical figure, Georges Bataille has had a significant influence on other French writers, such as Foucault, Derrida and Baudrillard. The Thirst for Annihilation is the first book in English to respond to Bataille's writings. In no way, though, is Nick Land's book an attempt to appropriate Bataille's writings to a secular intelligibility or to compromise with the aridity of academic discourse - rather, it is written as a communion . Theoretical issues in philosophy, sociology, psychodynamics, politics and poetry are discussed, but only as stepping stones into the deep water of textual sacrifice where words pass over into the broken voice of death. Cultural modernity is diagnosed down to its Kantian bedrock with its transcendental philosophy of the object, but Bataille's writings cut violently across this tightly disciplined reading to reveal the strong underlying currents that bear us towards chaos and dissolution - the violent impulse to escape, the thirst for annihilation.

Flying advanced MiG-41s from a forgotten airfield a covert strike team of hotshot US and Russian pilots wreak havoc throughout the Middle East. With Islamic unity broken and the region gearing up for war, the Russians have one last surprise, a stolen SS-20 nuclear warhead in Sandori hands. The team must fly one last mission to destroy this warhead before it can be moved, but a lone US intelligence officer accidentally discovers the awful truth and the Russians' terrible secret. Now minutes from weapons release, Captain David Olmstead faces the toughest decison of his life.

Flying advanced MiG-41s from a forgotten airfield a covert strike team of hotshot US and Russian pilots wreak havoc throughout the Middle East. With Islamic unity broken and the region gearing up for war, the Russians have one last surprise, a stolen SS-20 nuclear warhead in Sandori hands. The team must fly one last mission to destroy this warhead before it can be moved, but a lone US intelligence officer accidentally discovers the awful truth and the Russians' terrible secret. Now minutes from weapons release, Captain David Olmstead faces the toughest decison of his life.

Ein Mann tut so, als wäre er blind.
Dadurch sieht er die Welt mit anderen Augen. Und er nimmt Dinge wahr, die andere nicht sehen. So als wären die Sehenden blind.

Er wird in kriminelle Geschichten verwickelt, die ihn zum Zeugen machen und zum Handeln zwingen – in drei Kurzkrimis von Anke Gebert.


AUSZUG AUS DEM INHALT:

Plötzlich spürt die Kellnerin, dass ihr jemand folgt. Sie dreht sich um, entdeckt aber niemanden.
Sie geht schneller.
Dann dreht sie sich wieder um.
Nichts.
Sie beginnt zu laufen. Der Muskulöse findet immer wieder Deckung zwischen den parkenden Autos am Straßenrand.
Warum sieht die Kellnerin ihren Verfolger nicht? Ist sie denn blind?
Reiner möchte zu Lisa laufen, sie warnen, doch wie soll er ihr erklären, dass er in dieser Nacht plötzlich ohne Stock und Armbinde auskommt?
Lisa rennt.
Der Muskulöse ist ihr jetzt ganz nah, er will sie packen.
Reiner kommt ihm zuvor und drückt den Verfolger zwischen zwei Autos nieder.
Lisa dreht sich noch einmal kurz um und verschwindet dann in ihrer Seitenstraße.
Ein Auto naht von weitem.
Der Muskulöse ist stark, er brüllt: „Lass mich gefälligst los! Was soll denn das?“
Reiner hat keine Chance, der Verfolger kann sich losmachen und will jetzt nach ihm greifen.
„Dich kenne ich doch. Du bist doch der …“

Ein Mann tut so, als wäre er blind.
Dadurch sieht er die Welt mit anderen Augen. Und er nimmt Dinge wahr, die andere nicht sehen. So als wären die Sehenden blind.

Er wird in kriminelle Geschichten verwickelt, die ihn zum Zeugen machen und zum Handeln zwingen – in drei Kurzkrimis von Anke Gebert.


AUSZUG AUS DEM INHALT:

Plötzlich spürt die Kellnerin, dass ihr jemand folgt. Sie dreht sich um, entdeckt aber niemanden.
Sie geht schneller.
Dann dreht sie sich wieder um.
Nichts.
Sie beginnt zu laufen. Der Muskulöse findet immer wieder Deckung zwischen den parkenden Autos am Straßenrand.
Warum sieht die Kellnerin ihren Verfolger nicht? Ist sie denn blind?
Reiner möchte zu Lisa laufen, sie warnen, doch wie soll er ihr erklären, dass er in dieser Nacht plötzlich ohne Stock und Armbinde auskommt?
Lisa rennt.
Der Muskulöse ist ihr jetzt ganz nah, er will sie packen.
Reiner kommt ihm zuvor und drückt den Verfolger zwischen zwei Autos nieder.
Lisa dreht sich noch einmal kurz um und verschwindet dann in ihrer Seitenstraße.
Ein Auto naht von weitem.
Der Muskulöse ist stark, er brüllt: „Lass mich gefälligst los! Was soll denn das?“
Reiner hat keine Chance, der Verfolger kann sich losmachen und will jetzt nach ihm greifen.
„Dich kenne ich doch. Du bist doch der …“

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In the end, you can lose everything; possessions, family, hope and life itself.

The pandemic spreads over virgin populations threatening the entire breath of humanity...

Melting polar ice awakens dormant spores that had been locked away for eons beneath the frozen tundra. The pandemic grows with unprecedented speed and tenacity.

Asia is polluted first by the tempest. It then spreads from the epicenter through Europe and the Americas simultaneously before invading the United States. It expands deep into the heartlands racing eastward like a malignant blizzard, corrupting everyone it touches with vial symptoms. The sick and dying outnumber those that are labeled as either Carriers or Immunes.

A young business man working in Manhattan wittiness the collapse of society first hand. Public transportation dissolves leaving commuters to fend for themselves.

The young worker claws his way out of New York City in search of his upstate family. He treks north with others, battling gangs and self doubt.

Obstacles impede their advance from environmental calamities to hostel human flotsam, all conspiring to zap hope from their fragile spirits.

But they are not deterred. With their goals close at hand, the fate of their families is revealed presenting a crossroad that will forever change their lives. They forge ahead into the unknown.

It is this steadfast determination that embodies the human spirit. But as one reaches out for a sliver of hope, the possibility of losing what has already been obtained is at risk. Is hope worth the sacrifice?

In the end, you can lose everything; possessions, family, hope and life itself.

The Middle East unites under Islamic Jihad and former enemies, Sandor and Kumar, wage a war of terrorism against America. Russia secretly offers to sell a dozen advanced MiG-41s to the United States along with a plan that is both daring and dangerous, but could forever alter the balance of power in the Middle East. Hoping to destroy the unity between Kumar and Sandor, Russian Security Advisor Victor Komiskov and his American counterpart, NSA Director Charles Michaels, assemble a covert strike team of hotshot US and Russian pilots under the command of renegade General George “Maddog” Tanner. Flying the advanced jets from a forgotten airfield, they wreak havoc across the Middle East. With the region on the brink of war, a lone US intelligence officer discovers a terrifying Russian secret, and Captain David Olmstead, five minutes from weapons release, must make the most important decision of his life.

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