Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh

The Night School

Secret Society Of The Future

ANTI-CAPTURE MOODS are the prisms through which agents stop being knowing subjects and instead become atmospheres. [...] If algorithms entrap identity through obvious signals (preferences, instrumental choices), then moods are the only mercurial substance of experience left (almost vaporous) that can cast a twilight shade across the landscape of perception … because they are impersonal, and even inhuman. So, the algorithms can’t follow us there—at least not yet.

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Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh

Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh is a philosopher, theorist, and Professor of Comparative Literature at Babson College. His work tracks radical thought across the East and the West, with attention to ideas of chaos, violence, illusion, silence, extremism, mania, disappearance, night, evil, secrecy, and apocalyptic writing. He has published over ten books, including two volumes on madness titled Omnicide I and II, two volumes on the after-dark titled Night I and II, and a recent two-volume project on secrecy titled Secret Philosophies: A Book of Lost Worlds. He is also the Founding Director of the Future Studies Program and Editor of the Future’s Theory book series for Bloomsbury Press.