Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh is a philosopher, literary theorist, and professor of comparative literature at Babson College. His work tracks currents of experimental thought across the so-called East and the West, with particular attention to concepts of chaos, violence, illusion, silence, extremism, mania, disappearance, night, evil, secrecy, and apocalyptic writing. He has published nine books to date, including two volumes titled Omnicide I and Omnicide II on madness, two volumes on Night, a manuscript of notes and diagrams on Evil, and is currently at work on a project on secret societies titled Secret Philosophy: A Book of the Unlost (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2026). He is also the Founding Director of the Future Studies Program, editor of the Future’s Theory book series for Bloomsbury Press, and Programmer of Transdisciplinary Studies for The New Centre for Research & Practice.