Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh

Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh

Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Babson College. His focus is upon tracking emergent currents of thought in the so-called East and the West, with particular attention given to exploring concepts of chaos, violence, illusion, silence, sectarianism, mania, disappearance, night, and apocalyptic writing. He has published nine books to date, including: The Chaotic Imagination: New Literature and Philosophy of the Middle East (Palgrave, 2010); Inflictions: The Writing of Violence in the Middle East (Bloomsbury, 2012); The Radical Unspoken: Silence in Middle Eastern and Western Thought (Routledge, 2013); Insurgent, Poet, Mystic, Sectarian: The Four Masks of an Eastern Postmodernism (SUNY, 2015); Elemental Disappearances (co-authored; Punctum Books, 2016); Omnicide: Mania, Fatality, and the Future-In-Delirium (MIT Press/Urbanomic/Sequence, 2019); Night: A Philosophy of the After-Dark (Zero Books 2020); Omnicide II: Mania, Doom, and the Future-In-Deception (2022).

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