That being said, rumours are floating around that Scott had recently been diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer, which suggests a reason for this dispiriting act of self-annihilation.
With Rob Drummond's Bullet Catch at the Traverse offering a teasing and ultimately moving consideration on performance as an act of self-annihilation, this memorable piece of Jerzy Grotowski-influenced Polish dance-theatre offers another, no-less-pungent take on the urge to self-destruct and the survival instinct pulling us back from the brink.
In focusing its efforts on representing this caesura, genuine criticism in turn deepens the refractive violence, performing a destructive or mortuary act of self-annihilation upon the work.
In other words, electing a psychopath to public office is tantamount to national hara-kiri, the ritualized act of self-annihilation, self-destruction and suicide.
Like Mr Bones, but on a far grander scale, Minor Watt is both mystery and menace, his acts of wanton annihilation empowering him just as intensely as they alienate those who cherish all that he revels in destroying.
S. Schneidman as "the conscious act of self-induced annihilation, best understood as a multidimensional malaise in a needful individual who defines an issue for which the suicide act is perceived as the best solution" (Masango et al., 2008).
The blood continues to trickle, but soon runs into the streets as men and women across the city commit similarly inexplicable acts of self-annihilation, with bullets to the head or, in a queasy, presumably intentional visual echo of Sept. 11, plunges from on high.
When a particle meets its appropriate antiparticle, the two disappear in an act of mutual destruction known as annihilation.
Thus we can now read another precious, independently witnessed, albeit tiny, fragment of the vilest act of the 1914-18 war – the annihilation in 1915 of 1.5 million Armenian Christians by the Ottoman Turks and their "special units" of mass murderers.
