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Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh teaches courses in comparative literature, Middle Eastern studies, world literature, and modern philosophy. He received a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies from Columbia University, with an interest in global intersections of the avant-garde, existentialism, postcolonialism, and postmodernism. Professor Mohaghegh's scholarly focus is upon tracking emergent currents of thought in the so-called East and the West, with particular attention to exploring the concepts of chaos, violence, illusion, silence, madness, night, and apocalyptic writing. He has published ten books to date, including: The Chaotic Imagination: New Literature and Philosophy of the Middle East (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010), Inflictions: The Writing of Violence in the Middle East (Continuum, 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); Born Upon the Dark Spear: Selected Poems of Ahmad Shamlu (translation; Contra Mundum, 2016); Elemental Disappearances (co-authored with Dejan Lukic; Punctum Books, 2016); Manifestos of World Thought (co-edited with Lucian Stone, Rowan & Littlefield, 2017); Omnicide: Mania, Fatality, and the Future-In-Delirium (MIT Press, Urbanomic/Sequence, 2019); Night: A Philosophy of the After Dark (Zero Books, 2020); Night II: A Philosophy of the Last World (Zero Books, 2022), and; Omnicide II: Mania, Doom, and the Future-In-Deception (MIT Press, 2023). He is also the co-editor of two book series with Bloomsbury Press--Future Theory and Suspensions--which are dedicated to showcasing cutting-edge movements in literature, philosophy, culture, and art across multiple global regions. He also holds multiple honorary positions, including: Professioral Research Associate, University of London SOAS; Faculty and Dissertation Advisor, The Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts; Director of Transdisciplinary Studies, the New Centre for Research & Practice; Founding Director of the Future Studies Program.

Ph D, Columbia University
MA, Columbia University
BA, Columbia University

Comparative Literature; Modern Philosophy; Middle Eastern Studies

2022 — Professorial Research Associate, University of London SOAS
2019 — Finalist--Fulbright Scholar, Fulbright Scholar Program
2019 — Conceptual Scholar Award, Babson College
2019 — Most Impactful Faculty Award, Alumni and Friends Office--Babson College
2017 — Lois Roth Translation Award 2016, American Institute of Iranian Studies
2015 — Most Unforgettable Professor of the Year Award, Campus Activities Board--Babson College

Degree Courses 2025
- LTA 2073 MIDDLE EASTERN LITERATURE
- HUM 4602 FUTURE STUDIES:THEORIES OF WORLD TO COME
- HUM 4614 POSTMODERNISM: FUTURE CULTURE
Degree Courses 2024
- LIT 4620 LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY OF MADNESS
- LTA 2016 VIOLENCE:THEORIES OF CRUELTY EVIL INHUMA

Journal Articles

Mohaghegh, J.B. (2020). Restraint: Between Fire and the Labyrinth. The Derivative (Beirut Art Center). link
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2020). Philosophy of the Fallen: On Kafka's Savages. Vol: Volume XIII, Issue: No. 1. Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics Journal . link
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2020). Smoke, Drug, Poison: A Philosophy of the Opium Den. Pages Magazine. link
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2020). Insurrection vs. Extinction: Excerpt from the Book of Games. &&& Journal . link
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2020). The Virus as Demon: Principles of Coronademonology. Urbanomic Press. link
Mohaghegh, J., Devji, F. (2014). Point of No Return: Extremism, Sectarian Violence, and the Militant Subject (A Dialogue Between Faisal Devji and Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh). Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World Review. SCTIW Online Journal. link

Books

Mohaghegh, J.B. (in press). The Unlost: Philosophies of Secrecy, Ciphers, and Encrypted Worlds: The False Aleph: Writings of Secrecy, Double Meaning, and Encryption. Bloomsbury Press.
Mohaghegh, J.B. (in press). Evil: A Study of Lost Techniques: Evil: A Study of Lost Techniques . Scarlet Imprint Press.
Mohaghegh, J.B. (in press). Futures Theory: Philosophies from the Worlds to Come: Futures Theory: Philosophies from the Worlds to Come. Bloomsbury Press.
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2023). Omnicide, Volume II: Mania, Doom, and the Future-In-Deception: Omnicide, Volume II: Mania, Doom, and the Future-In-Deception . Page: 592 pages. MIT Press, Urbanomic/Sequence Series. link
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2022). Night, Volume II: A Philosophy of the Last World. Page: 144 pages. Zero Books .
Mohaghegh, J.B. (in press). Maniac Lullabies : Maniac Lullabies. Mont Publishing House. link
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2020). Night: A Philosophy of the After-Dark: Night: A Philosophy of the After-Dark. Page: 136 pages. Zero Books.
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2019). Omnicide: Mania, Fatality, and the Future-In-Delirium: Omnicide: Mania, Fatality, and the Future-In-Delirium. Page: 600 pages. MIT Press and Urbanomic. link
Mohaghegh, J., Stone, L. (2017). Manifestos for World Thought. Rowman & Littlefield. link
Mohaghegh, J.B., Lukic, D. (2016). Elemental Disappearances. Page: 164. Punctum Books. link
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2016). Born Upon the Dark Spear: Selected Poems of Ahmad Shamlu. Contra Mundum Press. link
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2015). Insurgent, Poet, Mystic, Sectarian: The Four Masks of an Eastern Postmodernism. State University of New York Press. link
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2013). Silence in Middle Eastern and Western Thought: The Radical Unspoken. Page: 248. Routledge.
Mohaghegh, J. (2012). The Writing of Violence in the Middle East: Inflictions. Page: 256. Bloomsbury Academic. link
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2010). The Chaotic Imagination: New Literature and Philosophy of the Middle East: The Chaotic Imagination: New Literature and Philosophy of the Middle East. Palgrave Macmillan. link

Book Chapters

Mohaghegh, J.B. (in press). Chimera Philosophy: On the Epoch of Forgotten Creatures: Assembling with the Planet: Ecologies in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collections. Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum (Madrid).
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2024). Lullaby: Future Prototypes of Evil: Contemporanea: A Glossary for the Twenty-First Century. Page: Pgs. 309-317. MIT Press. link
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2023). Machinic Hypnotism and the Black: The Model is the Message: Incredible Machines. Page: Pgs. 51-57. &&& / Richmond Art Gallery.
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2023). Nemesis (First of All Perils): Anarch. Page: Pgs. vi-xi. Scarlet Imprint Press.
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2022). Enter Elsewhere: Five Principles of Gharib: The Book of Gharib (Dissonance). Page: Pgs. 1-7. Venice Biennale Publication, Armenian Pavilion (Hallow Ground).
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2022). The Mis-Descended: Ancestors (Exhibition Book). Page: 20-27. CSMVS Museum.
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2021). Night and Secrecy (Sect of the Last World): Acephale and Autobiographical Philosophy in the 21st Century. Page: 433-451. Schism Press.
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2021). Night and Silence: Five Breaths at the End of the World: Silence and Silencing in History, Literature, Language, and Culture. Page: 215-233. Palgrave Macmillan.
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2021). The Last King: Manual for a Future Desert. Page: 306-322. Mousse Publishers.
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2021). Into Night (Or Five Rooms at the End of the World): Interior Realms. Page: 1-21. Theatrum Mundi and Geffrye Museum.
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2021). Translations of Poetic Selections by Ahmad Shamlu (Nocturnal, The Chasm, The Hour of Execution): Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora. Page: 266-272. Green Linden Press.
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2018). The Night-Traveler: Theories of Nocturnal Time, Space, and Movement: Philosophy, Travel, and Place: Being-In-Transit. Palgrave Macmillan.
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2017). "Introduction: Outsider Imperatives": "Introduction", Manifestos for World Thought. Rowman & Littlefield.
Mohaghegh, J. (2017). Colossomania: World Thought and the Return to Immensity: Manifestos for World Thought. Rowman & Littlefield. link
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2014). Cosmopolitan Violence as Cosmological Reckoning: The Poetics of the Night Raid, the Martyred Body, and the Execution-spectacle: Iranian Identity and Cosmopolitanism: Spheres of Belonging (Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought). Page: 105-118. Bloomsbury Academic.

Book Reviews

Mohaghegh, J. (2014). The Future Carnival: A Review Essay of Slavoj Žižek’s The Year of Dreaming Dangerously: Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World Review. The Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World (SCTIW). link

Other

Mohaghegh, J.B. (2020). Sacred Hill (Video Essay): Sacred Hill . IMPAKT. link
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2020). Omniseductions: A Discussion with Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh: Diffractions Collective. Diffractions Collective. link
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2020). Sunera Thobani. Contesting Islam: Constructing Race and Sexuality and Soraya Batmanghelichi. Revolutionary Bodies: Technologies of Gender, Sex, and Self in Iran.: Suspensions Book Series. Bloomsbury. link
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2019). Soundproof Room, "Inexistent Night" (article), "Introduction": Soundproof Room. Journal of Comparative and Continental Philosophy. link
Lentin, R. (2019). Traces of Racial Exception: Traces of Racial Exception.
Wilcox, A. (2018). Orientalism and Imperialism: Andrew Wilcox. Orientalism and Imperialism..
Salama, M. (2018). The Qur’an and Modern Arabic Literary Criticism.: Mohammad Salama. The Qur’an and Modern Arabic Literary Criticism.. Bloomsbury.
Wise, C. (2017). Sorcery, Totem and Jihad in African Philosophy: Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought. Page: 216. Bloomsbury Academic. link
Bensmaia, R. (2017). Gilles Deleuze, Postcolonial Theory, and the Philosophy of the Limit: Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought. Page: 192. Bloomsbury Academic. link
Zalloua, Z. (2017). Continental Philosophy and the Palestinian Question: Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought. Page: 240. Bloomsbury Academic. link
Mohaghegh, J.B. (2015). "Omnicide: Movement of the Lost Cause". Vol: IX Spring, Issue: No. 1 (2015), Page: 10. Hyperion. link
Kayaalp, E., , . (2015). Remaking Politics, Markets, and Citizens in Turkey: Governing Through Smoke: Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought. Bloomsbury Academic. link
Kacem, M.B., , . (2014). Transgression and the Inexistent: A Philosophical Vocabulary: Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought. Page: 272. Bloomsbury Academic. link
Stone, L., , . (2014). Iranian Identity and Cosmopolitanism: Spheres of Belonging: Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought. Page: 256. Bloomsbury Academic. link
Mutman, M. (2014). The Politics of Writing Islam: Voicing Difference: Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought. Bloomsbury Press. link
Adib-Moghaddam, A. (2013). On the Arab Revolts and the Iranian Revolution: Power and Resistance Today: Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought. Page: 264. Bloomsbury Academic. link
Lukic, D. (2013). Hostage Spaces of the Contemporary Islamicate World: Phantom Territoriality: Suspensions: Contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate Thought. Bloomsbury Press. link

"The Future City" Mohaghegh, J. Green AI Summit, Harvard University (2024)
"Distributed Mind Test" Mohaghegh, J. Democracy Machine Event, Eyebeam Art & Technology Center--New York (Online) (2024)
Omnicide Book Event: Games for the End of the World Mohaghegh, J. Book Talk/Release Event (Omnicide II), Miguel Abreu Gallery--New York City, NY (2024)
The Weeping Songs: Writings of the Unbearable in the Middle East Mohaghegh, J. Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture (Invited Talk), Occidental College (California) (2023)
Secrecy, Conspiracy, and the Cryptographic Imagination: Enter Shadow Mohaghegh, J. UCI Center for Ethnography (Invited Talk), University of California Irvine (2023)
Exaltations in the Dead of Night: A Conversation with Jason Mohaghegh Mohaghegh, J. Book Talk (Wake Island Podcast), Online (2023)
Loser Gods: Theories of the Divine Outsider Mohaghegh, J. USC First Forum 2023--Losers Conference, University of Southern California (2023)
The Hidden Turn: Languages and Images of Secrecy Mohaghegh, J. Rupert Alternative Education Programme 2023, Vilnius, Lithuania (2023)
Omnicide II: Mania, Doom, and the Future-In-Deception Mohaghegh, J. Book Talk (Acid Horizon Online Podcast), Online (2022)
Machinic Hypnotism and the Black Mohaghegh, J. Incredible Machines, Berlin (Online) (2022)
Night II: A Philosophy of the Last World Mohaghegh, J. Book Talk (Zero Books Online Podcast), Online (2022)
Portals (on the House of Second Wisdom) Mohaghegh, J. A Light Footprint in the Cosmos, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada (2022)
"Iran as a Space for World Thought" Mohaghegh, J. Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies Lecture Series, Princeton University (2022)
The Pretender: Unfulfilled Philosophies of Futurism Mohaghegh, J. Summa Technologiae, Adam Mickiewicz Institute; e-flux (2021)
"The Cosmological Archive" and "The House of Second Wisdom" Mohaghegh, J. Cosmopolitics, Venice Biennale 2021 (2021)
Myth of the Master Mohaghegh, J. Myth of the Master, New Centre for Research & Practice (2021)
"Chimera", "Idol" (Panels 1, 7) Mohaghegh, J. Seven Prophecies of the Future, Venice Biennale 2021 (2021)
"Counter-Psychologies of Fantasy" Mohaghegh, J. Fantasy (Forum for Philosophy, London School of Economics), London School of Economics (2021)
"Reverse Hyperstition" Mohaghegh, J. Hyperstition, Digital Earth (2021)
"Neo-Madness" Mohaghegh, J. Neo-Madness, New Centre for Research & Practice (2021)
"The Future Ghost" Mohaghegh, J. Existing Among Specters, Colombia (2021)
"Introduction to Future Studies" and "Future Literature" Mohaghegh, J. Future Studies Virtual Conference, Sarah Lawrence College (New York) (2021)
Dreams of the Last King: Literature, Philosophy, Art of the End Mohaghegh, J. Städelschule Invited Lecture Program, Stadelschule Arts School (Berlin) (2021)
Into Night (or Five Rooms at the End of the World) Mohaghegh, J. Theatrum Mundi and Geffrye Museum: Into the Night, London (2020)
Insurrection vs. Extinction Mohaghegh, J. Sheltering Places, Online (2020)
The Virus as Demon: Principles of Coronademonology Mohaghegh, J. Urbanomic Plague Cast, https://www.urbanomic.com/podcast/plaguepod-bonus-principles-of-coronademonology/ (2020)
On the Power of Darkness and Night Mohaghegh, J. Zero Books Series, Online (2020)
"Futurism: Movement" Mohaghegh, J. Futurism Series, Babson College (2019)
"Discourse on the Night" Mohaghegh, J. Zero Squared Podcast, Online (2019)
"Maniac Lullabies" Mohaghegh, J. Urbanomic Podcast, Online (2019)
"Infinity Machines: Omnicide Book Talk" Mohaghegh, J. Omnicide Book Talk, New York (2019)
“Night, Ritual, Violence: The Corpse-Washer and the Necromancer in Contemporary Middle Eastern Literature” Mohaghegh, J. American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, Washington D.C. (2019)
"Disappearance: 9 Principles" Mohaghegh, J. Invited Talk, Global Studies Department, Sarah Lawrence College (2018)
"Utopia and Dystopia" Mohaghegh, J. Emergent World Thought Research Series, Wellesley, MA (2017)
"The Radical Outside: Counter-Futures for World Thought" Mohaghegh, J. Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy Annual Conference, Memphis, TN (2017)
The Writing of Mania: Literature, Madness, and the Future of Representation" Mohaghegh, J. Faculty Research Chat, Babson College (2017)
"Enemy Imagination: Assassins of Western Thought" Mohaghegh, J. Decolonizing Time Conference, Maerzmuzik Festival, Berlin, Germany (2017)
"On Secrecy" Mohaghegh, J. Philosophy, Poetics, and the Occult Conference, Saint-Erme, France (2017)
"Secret Circles: Writings of the Outsider" Mohaghegh, J. Chung, U. Lukic, D. Bianca Tenorio, Jinane Gideon Ache, Jack Halpin, Daniel Leal, Eugenia Carmago, Elisa da Rocha Leao, S. Emergent World Thought Research Series, Babson College (2016)
Co-Organizer and Panel Discussant Mohaghegh, J. "Islam and Psychoanalysis" panel, Salt Lake City, Utah (2016)
"The Dromomaniac, The Neo-Bedouin: Middle Eastern Literatures of Restlessness" Mohaghegh, J. "Writing Diaspora" panel, Harvard University (2016)
"Born Upon the Dark Spear: Selected Poems of Ahmad Shamlu" (lecture and reading) Mohaghegh, J. CMP Poetry Reading, KGB, New York City (2016)
“The Virtual Middle East: New Philosophical-Artistic Movements of the Image” Mohaghegh, J. Humanities and Social Sciences Seminar, Koc University (2015)
“The Radical Outside: New Formations of World Thought” Mohaghegh, J. Media Studies Seminar, Istanbul, Turkey (2015)
“The Unseen Militant: Women and Extremism in the Middle East” Mohaghegh, J. Center for Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership, Babson College (2015)
“The Sectarian Imagination: Fatalism, Extremity, and Apocalyptic Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Literature” Mohaghegh, J. American Comparative Literature Association, Seattle, WA (2015)
“Will to Chaos: The New Cultural Imagination of the Middle East” Mohaghegh, J. Cultural Studies Seminar, Istanbul, Turkey (2015)
Violence, Desire, and the Revolutionary Body Mohaghegh, J. Lukic, D. Epplin, C. IEW: Emergent World Thought: Violence, Desire, and the Revolutionary Body, Wellesley, MA (2014)
“Writings of the Buried Alive: Textual-Manic Intersections of Hedayat and Bensmaia Mohaghegh, J. Borderlines: Reda Bensmaia, Continental Philosophy, and Postcolonialism Panel, New Orleans, LA (2014)
Poetic Apocalypses of the Middle East: Fatalism, Extremity, and the Rise of an Eastern Postmodernism Mohaghegh, J. Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, New York University (2014)
Poetic Apocalypses of the Middle East: Fatalism, Extremity, and the Rise of an Eastern Postmodernism Mohaghegh, J. Annual Meeting of the American Comparative Literature Association, New York, NY (2014)
The Middle East and the West Mohaghegh, J. Trustees/Overseers Luncheon, Wellesley, MA (2014)
The Poetics of Apocalypse: World Reckonings of Contemporary Middle Eastern Thought Mohaghegh, J. MLA Annual Convention, Chicago, IL (2014)
Acidic Subjectivities of the Middle East Mohaghegh, J. SPEP Annual Conference, Eugene, OR (2013)
The Poetics of Urban Violence: Narratives of Spatial Collapse in Iran (1952-1979) Mohaghegh, J. International Conference - Urban Violence in the Middle East: Histories of Place and Event, London, England (2013)
On Sectarianism: Middle Eastern Manifestations of the Radical Mohaghegh, J. The 10th Biennial Radical Philosophy Association Conference, Buffalo, NY (2012)
The Poetics of Rage: Cruelty, Vitalism, and Extremity in New Iranian Texts Mohaghegh, J. MLA Annual Convention, Seattle, WA (2012)

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