Mahan Moalemi is a writer and researcher from Tehran. Pursuing studies in the emerging field of Comparative Futurism, he explores possible encounters between global visual cultures and critical future studies, with particular interests in techno-aesthetics, transnational chronopolitics, and the genealogies of contemporaneity. He is co-editor of Ethnofuturismen (Berlin: Merve Verlag, 2018) and his writings have appeared in Art Agenda, Cabinet, Canvas, Domus, and Spike Art Quarterly, among other art journals, exhibition catalogues, literary publications, anthologies, and zines published in and outside Iran.