Revolution of Things: The Islamism and Post-Islamism of Objects in Tehran

An exploration of the ways that shifting relations between materiality and language bring about different forms of politics in Tehran

In Revolution of Things, Kusha Sefat traces a dynamism between materiality and language that sheds light on how the merger of the two permeates politics. To show how shifting relations between things and terms form the grounds for different modes of action, Sefat reconstructs the political history of postrevolutionary Iran at the intersection of everyday objec...