Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh is Assistant Professor of World Literature at New Jersey City University, USA.

• Series ForewordPreface: Violence, East/WestAcknowledgements0. Zero-World Consciousness1. Threat: Writings of Betrayal2. Annihilation: Writings of Cruelty3. Sharpening: Writings of Evil4. Deception: Writings of Midnight5. Rage: Writings of Overthrow6. Assassination: Writings of War6.5. Interlude (Of the Factions, of the Barriers)7. Conclusion (Of Those Who Have Become Jagged): Reckonings of an Eastern ViolenceNotesBibliographyIndex

Perhaps the major merit of Inflictions is not only the strength of its argument, but it is more the book’s relentless counter canonical approach — a timely political-methodological intervention which boldly contemplates the inscriptions of real violence as integral to the very movement of absolute laceration of writing itself and the ultimate depleting of the metaphysics of presence … From this multi-dimensional perception of how we ought to begin reading violence, from this deferred universe, the ideas of post-apocalyptic visions emerge and unfold. By all means, one can only hope that this book excites more inquiries peeling through more engravings-of-thought contained in concealed poetic, fictional, and philosophical palimpsests waiting for their moments to emerge.