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Night 6, May 23rd
Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh is an Iranian-American philosopher, cultural theorist, and professor of comparative literature at Babson College whose work traces creative movements across both the so-called Middle East and the West. His writing explores concepts of chaos, illusion, violence, disappearance, silence, delirium, night, futurism, secrecy, and apocalypse. He has written ten books to date, including: The Chaotic Imagination; Inflictions: The Writing of Violence; The Radical Unspoken: Silence in Eastern and Western Thought; two volumes of a project on madness titled Omnicide with MIT Press; and most recently, two volumes on the subject of Night titled Night: A Philosophy of the After Dark and Night, Volume II: A Philosophy of the Last World. He is a Professorial Research Associate at the University of London (SOAS), Founding Director of the Future Studies Program, Programmer of Transdisciplinary Studies for the New Centre for Research & Practice, and the editor of two book series (Suspensions; Futures Theory) with Bloomsbury Press.

Summit Two, 2024
Chthonic Realism: Summoning Ghosts and Monsters

Reality is Chthonic in the sense that it is not entirely revealed in any relations. For a realist, the world is not only the world-for-us, reduced to human access, but rather there is always a surplus. Accordingly, Chthonic Realism is a term that attempts to take into account the existence of the world-in-itself, apart from any relation, and, certainly, the world-without-us, the world of Inhumans, as opposed to the world-for-us, a world merely reduced to human correlation.* The term Chthonic also brings to mind the word Cthulhu. In various cultural and mythological contexts, “chthonic” is often used to describe deities, spirits, or forces that are related to the underworld, or the afterlife. Summoned from a dimension outside of time and space beyond the limits of human understanding, Cthulhu – a tentacular Lovecraftian cosmic monster – has appeared in many different texts playing different roles from an otherworldly monster in horror novels to a metonymic figure for speculative and metaphysical in contemporary philosophy. This creature is an inhuman entity coming from the darkness of reality – somewhere beyond human finitude – that threatens our world and shakes the pillars of human understanding.Chthonic Realism: Summoning Ghosts and Monsters explores the concepts of horror, speculation, the unknown, and the future. How things of the past can teach humans to gain a better understanding of reality. What happens when contemporary artists summon the ghosts of antiquity or monsters beyond the boundaries of time and space? And how things of the past can beckon us through the obscurity of the unknowable and towards a multitude of Futures?