The chaosing: The annihilation of consciousness, shadow-becoming, and the midnight of the unreal (Friedrich Nietzsche, Sadeq Hedayat, Iran)

A world-in-chaosing. The primary concern of this project will be to explore the potentiality for a post-subjective space (beyond the impositions of consciousness) here termed ‘the chaotic’ and the intricacies of the process by which it actualizes itself through an engagement with the concepts of ‘annihilation’, ‘shadow-becoming’, and ‘the unreal’. To achieve this task, the work will examine the critical intersections and semi-consonant world-views held by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) and the Persian writer Sadeq Hedayat (1903–1951), with tangential digressions into several other philosophical and literary positions occurring throughout. By engaging the varying existential dimensions of such a becoming through the above literary-philosophical imaginations, the project aspires to cultivate an unforeseen envisioning of the chaotic as an inexorable antagonism beyond the constraints and structures of Being, subjectivity, totality/singularity, and the real, and thereby operating in an alternative dimension of supra-conscious will/desire for which the rampant collision of experiential intensities alone reigns supreme.