To enter the many experiential chambers of Night--space, silence, cruelty, secrecy--and thereby confront a vision of the end of worlds.
To enter the many experiential chambers of Night--space, silence, cruelty, secrecy--and thereby confront a vision of the end of worlds.
Criticism, Metaphysics, Modern (general)
This book follows and expands on the boundaries of its precursor Night: A Philosophy of the After-Dark by presenting a series of new conceptual territories, figures, sources, images and imaginative possibilities. The central idea of Night is contemplated in its intricate relation to space, silence, cruelty and secrecy while also taking thought toward the futural limits of a vision of the last world.
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There are always—by twists of fate—deviant exceptions. Mohaghegh’s Night: A Philosophy of the Last World is precisely one of such exceptions. Navigating the undercurrents and the untrodden cave systems which form that tenebrous underside of literature upon which the greatest works have been casually or rigorously erected, Mohaghegh’s Night project is more akin to a play, set after the sunset where the unconscious forces of literature begin to take center stage in a plot that involves feats of ambush, intrigue, tremors, terror, and an easy quietude, where the bite of night leaves its greatest mark on us. ~ Reza Negarestani, author of Cyclonopedia
