In total darkeness, is poetry still there? Talk with Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh.

Iranian-American philosopher Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh joins me for a garden walk - through evil and madness, secrets, games. Poetry that sits at the start of every civilization, rave cultures in active war zones, programmers who can dance, horror films as the real history of reality, mysticism as transaction, and the praying mantis.Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Middle Eastern Studies and now Professor of Comparative Literature at Babson College, is the author of nine books spanning philosophy, literature, psychoanalysis, and cultural studies, including Omnicide: Mania, Fatality, and the Future-In-Delirium, Night: A Philosophy of the After-Dark, and Evil: A Study of Lost Techniques