Department of Politics and International Studies

Jason Mohaghegh

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Biography

Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh (Ph.D. Columbia University) is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Babson College and author of nine books in the fields of philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies. His work explores creative movements across both the so-called East and West with a focus on concepts of chaos, illusion, violence, disappearance, delirium, silence, madness, apocalypse, night, and futurity. His published books to date include: The Chaotic Imagination (2010); Inflictions: The Writing of Violence (2012); The Radical Unspoken: Silence in Eastern and Western Thought (2013); Insurgent, Poet, Mystic, Sectarian: The Four Masks of an Eastern Postmodernism (2014); Omnicide: Mania, Fatalism, and the Future-In-Delirium (2019), and; Night: A Philosophy of the After Dark (2020). His latest books are Omnicide, Volume II: Mania, Doom, and the Future-In-Deception (2023) and Night, Volume II: A Philosophy of the Last World (2022). He is a Professorial Research Associate at SOAS University of London, Founding Director of the Future Studies Program, Guest Faculty Member at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, Programmer of Transdisciplinary Studies for the New Centre for Research & Practice, and editor of two book series (Suspensions Series; Future Theory Series) with Bloomsbury Press.