Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Babson College and author of Silence in Middle Eastern and Western Thought: The Radical Unspoken; The Writing of Violence in the Middle East: Inflictions; and New Literature and Philosophy of the Middle East: The Chaotic Imagination.

Introduction: Modernity-Age of Extremity

Part I. Insurgent

1. Theorizing the Insurgent: Otherless Subjectivity, Radical Coldness, and the East-West Matrix

2. Images of Resistance: Media, Modernity, and the Machine Within Iranian Revolutionary Ideology

Part II. Poet

3. The Poetics of Urban Violence: The Night Raid, the Martyred Body, and the Execution Spectacle

4. Will to Chaos: Iranian Avant-Garde Literature and Western Thought

Part III. Mystic

5. Vision, Disappearance, and the Soundscape: New-Wave Iranian Cinema and the Postmodern Pack

Part IV. Sectarian

6. Sectarianism I: And They Shall Dream of the Enemy

7. Sectarianism II: Final Delineations of the Sect

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