Farshid M. Salimi

Farshid is a IRGAC doctoral student from Iran, working at the intersection of political philosophy and empirical social research. He holds an MA in Philosophy and a BA in Social Sciences from universities in Tehran. His intellectual formation draws on a Marxist-Deleuzian framework, combining conceptual analysis with situated political practice. Beyond academia, Farshid is actively engaged in translation — bringing Spinozist political thought to Persian-language audiences — and in a collective publishing initiative in Iran. He contributes to public writing and editorial collaboration, and since 2022 has served as an associate editor for the Global Iranian Studies Review, hosted at the University of Toronto. Farshid's PhD project at IRGAC, University of Potsdam, investigates the micro-politics of affect in contemporary social movements in Iran. Drawing on practical philosophy, in the sense elaborated by Gilles Deleuze, to provide an orienting vision for empirical social research, the project examines how large-scale processes of fascistization emerge through everyday micro-political transformations, while identifying non-fascist forms of life within existing social formations.