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(...) What rare typologies of fear arise when the otherwise illicit tonics and ingredients of the ‘faramoosh-khaneh’ are thieved by regimes of bio-political power? What fresh paranoia now accompanies those once-savored narcotic clouds when displaced from their badlands and assimilated into pale, regimented institutions? When its beautiful malevolence filters through mechanisms of sadistic control? We call this stolenness the Hospital, where opium is deprived of its wayward qualities and made to “fulfill its destiny in a cage,” its tropospheric veils now condensed into the foreign compositions of the pill and the syringe.

A new definition of Horror accompanies the Hospital, though funneled through a false high or perverse delirium that facilitates “the leeching of healthy hearts.”

Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh