Insurgent, poet, mystic, sectarian: the four masks of an eastern postmodernism

Introduction: Modernity, age of extremity

1. Theorizing the insurgent: otherless subjectivity, radical coldness, and the East-West matrix

2. Images of resistance: media, modernity, and the machine within Iranian revolutionary ideology

3. The poetics of urban violence: the night raid, the martyred body, and the execution spectacle

4. Will to chaos: Iranian avant-garde literature and western thought

5. Vision, disappearance, and the soundscape: new wave Iranian cinema and the postmodern pack

6. Sectarianism I: And they shall dream of the enemy

7. Sectarianism II: Final delineations of the sect.