I was born in 1987 in Iran. I got my BA in English Language and Literature and then studied philosophy and got my PhD, writing a dissertation on Heidegger and Deleuze's repective interpretaions of Nietzsche. It was during that time that I came across Ray Brassier's Nihil Unbound where it compared Deleuze and Heidegger. This was when I became interested in contemporary materialism and posthumanism. I have translated a dozen books from English to Farsi during the years, including works by Deleuze, Agamben, Foucault and others. Recebntly i started studying at the New Centre for Research and Practice. Currently I am working on a new reading of Iranian philosophy, focusing mostly on Suhrawardi and Zoroastrianism, via a posthumanist framework.
Research
My main research focuses on a specualtive reading of Iranian philosophy, mostly the intersection of Zoroastrian philosophy and its revival in figures such as Suhrawardi, Corbin and others. I try to both find new trajectories in these philosophies and also try to open a way to read Iranian ontology, from Zoroastrianism to Suhrawardi and their contemporary receptions, from a specualtive perspective that tries to reinvent the tradition in a new way that leads to a new cosmopolitical framework. This project is partly an effort at designing a new materialist framework and partly a new conception of thought that enables new paths that can reinvent Iranian cosmology as a part of a cosmic project of speculation in late capitalism. This is going to be done from a posthumanist-materialist view, rather than a standard historical one. Part of the project will focus on a reinvention of the concept of time and history in Iranian thought which I believe is the main part of its specualtive cosmology. This opens the way for designing a planomen of this speculative universe that taps into the whole virtual potentials of this cosmos. My main question is how to find a way to bring togehter all the different destabilizing movements desinged in differnet thinkers and differnet times in the course of Iranian thought and devise concptual framworks for revolutionizing them towards a chaosmos. I call this concaptual framework "chaosmotics".
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