Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh Knihy

Focusing on the concept of silence, this book examines the works of modern Iranian literary figures alongside contemporary Continental literary criticism and philosophy. It delves into themes of poetics, dreaming, movement, and the body, highlighting the significance of "the radical unspoken" in both Western and Middle Eastern texts. By establishing a comparative framework, it reveals the profound implications of silence in modern thought and its connection to critical theory and postcolonial writing.

To enter the many experiential chambers of Night--space, silence, cruelty, secrecy--and thereby confront a vision of the end of worlds.

Contemporary Iranian and Middle Eastern thinkers and artists are shaping a new postmodern vision that challenges traditional narratives and cultural boundaries. This exploration delves into their innovative ideas and artistic expressions, highlighting how they navigate and redefine identity, politics, and society in a rapidly changing world. Through their work, they offer fresh perspectives that contribute to a broader understanding of modernity and cultural dialogue in the region.

Engages the myriad dimensions of Night in order to explore the human experience of the after-dark.

Writing has come face-to-face with a most crucial juncture: to negotiate with the inescapable presence of violence. From the domains of contemporary Middle Eastern literature, this book stages a powerful conversation on questions of cruelty, evil, rage, vengeance, madness, and deception. Beyond the narrow judgment of violence as a purely tragic reality, these writers (in states of exile, prison, martyrdom, and war) come to wager with the more elusive, inspiring, and even ecstatic dimensions that rest at the heart of a visceral universe of imagination. Covering complex and controversial thematic discussions, Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh forms an extreme record of voices, movements, and thought-experiments drawn from the inner circles of the Middle Eastern region. By exploring the most abrasive writings of this vast cultural front, the book reveals how such captivating outsider texts could potentially redefine our understanding of violence and its now-unstoppable relationship to a dangerous age.

A fragmentary catalogue of poetic derangements that reveals the ways in which mania communicates with an extreme will to annihilation