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Chapter One: Persian Empire?,the US Empire, and it is not particularly a potent or competent empire. Instead of fishing for flawed metaphors, we need to reconfigure the geopolitics of the region, in which the ruling regime in Iran has amassed considerable soft power, waging a successful asymmetrical warfare to protect its domes

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Chapter Four: An Aesthetic Reason,the so-called Reformists), and a fortiori the categorically discredited “expat opposition” that its only difference with the ruling regime is that it covets a power it lacks. In its political potency, the movement (however short-lived in its most public phase) was and will remain post-ideological, a

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,Chapter Five: Shi’ism at Large,ectarian tone of Sunni–Shi’i rivalries presumed to underline the geopolitics of the region. I wish to make the entirely counterintuitive proposition that orthodox–heterodox contestations throughout Islamic history, prior to Muslim encounter with European colonialism, has in fact been the source of m

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Chapter Six: Invisible Signs, Green Movement in order to show how reading that death refuses to yield to any official metanarrative of revisionist historiography—that the simple sign of a murder persists through its militant appropriation by both the state and its discredited opposition. This chapter will begin to shift the foc

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Chapter Eight: Cosmopolitan Worldliness,n unanticipated consequences of colonialism, and thus paradoxically colonial in their nature and disposition. All these ideologies were invented in combative conversation and contestation with and against a colonial modernity, a colonizing interlocutor that code-named itself, and was thus called, “t

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Chapter Nine: Fragmented Signs,rection of the politics of despair we live and learn today. The undaunted worldliness we see and celebrate in film, fiction, and history prepares the theoretical foregrounding of a revival of critical thinking toward the articulation of an intuition of transcendence. The rise of a new cosmopolitan w