Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh

 

Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh (Ph.D. Columbia University) is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Babson College teaching courses in world literature, philosophy, cultural studies, and visual art. He also holds a faculty position at the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA) and is Director of the Transdisciplinary Studies Program for the New Centre for Research & Practice. His scholarly focus is upon tracking emergent currents of the Middle East and the West, with particular attention to exploring the concepts of chaos, violence, illusion, silence, madness, futurism, disappearance, and apocalyptic thought.

He has published nine books to date, including: The Chaotic Imagination (Palgrave, 2010); Inflictions: The Writing of Violence (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); Elemental Disappearances (co-authored, Punctum Books, 2016). His most recent books are Omnicide: Mania, Fatality, and the Future-In-Delirium (Urbanomic/Sequence/MIT Press, 2019); and Night: A Philosophy of the After-Dark (Zero Books, 2020). He is also the Founder of the 5th Disappearance Lab (www.5dal.com) which tracks ideas of enigma, secrecy, vanishing, and enchantment.

https://www.urbanomic.com/podcast/maniac-lullabies/  

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https://5dal.com/  

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyL_l1Ex3pkKpQU1xpF8FoQ/videos  

https://www.babson.edu/academics/faculty/faculty-profiles/jason-mohaghegh.php

Related research & practice areas:

  • Memory, Forgetting, Trauma and the Archive

  • Language/Image

  • International Diaspora and Post-Colonialism

  • Liminality, Space/Place, Temporary Architecture

  • Foreignness, Otherness and the Uncanny

  • Architecture and Space

  • Art and Madness; Art and the Unreal; Aesthetics of Darkness/Night; Middle Eastern Art; Avant-Garde Movements; Philosophy and Art; Futuristic Art; Apocalyptic Art

 
ALL 5 (m-p), TT 3 (e-n)Guest Usermemory, forgetting, trauma and the archive, language/image, international diaspora and post-colonialism, liminality, space/place, temporary architecture, foreignness, otherness and the uncanny, architecture and space, art and madness, art and the unreal, aesthetics of darkness/night, middle eastern art, avant-garde movements, philosophy and art, futuristic art, apocalyptic art, philosophy, poetry, literature, visual art and architecture, film, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, critical theory