This book presents a pragmatic engagement between the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari and various facets of Indian society, culture and art. The universal appeal of the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari finds its due place in India with a set of innovative analyses and radical interpretations that reimagine India as a complex multiplicity.
The volume brings together scholars from various disciplines and theoretical orientations to explore a wide range of issues in contemporary India, like dalit and caste studies, nationalism, gender question, art and cinema, and so on under the rubric of Deleuzo-Guattarian philosophy.
This interdisciplinary book will be useful to scholars and researchers of philosophy, anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, postcolonial studies and South Asian studies.
This book presents a pragmatic engagement between the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari and various facets of Indian society, culture and art.
Arvustused
This excellent collection of essays explores Indian cultural phenomena in the light of Deleuzian concepts and throws new light on aspects of Deleuzes thought. The question Why? hovers over the collection: why Deleuze? Why India? Together the essays assembled here provide a compelling case for the fecundity of this encounter. They make essential reading for anyone interested in Deleuze, India and new developments in the humanities.
Paul Patton, Hongyi Chair Professor of Philosophy, Wuhan University, China
This is a thoughtful and scholarly volume, applying Deleuze not in a blind manner but through a Deleuzian way of philosophizing which is critical and creative. Not only are essential concepts from Deleuze clearly discussed but through their application to various dimensions of Indian social experiences, these concepts are further interpreted and enriched, thereby showing how Deleuzian thought is important for contemporary projects of comparative philosophy. It should be of great interest to all those who are struggling with finding new vocabulary for the changing contemporary world.
Sundar Sarukkai, Visiting Faculty, Indian Institute of Science and Former/Founder Director, Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, India
Introduction: Deleuze, Guattari, and the Invention of the Indian
Diagram Part I: Deleuzian Ontology: Difference, Events and Codes
1.
Deleuzian Ontology: Encounter and Experimentation
2. Virtual Ontologies:
Heidegger, Deleuze and the Concept of the Event (Ereignis, événement)
3. La
Gestothèque in Translation: From Body Techniques to Technologies and Back
4.
Hindustani Sangeet Paddhati and the Problem of Singularity: A Deleuzian Point
of View Part II: Becoming Minor/Becoming Political
5. Becoming Minor: From
Literature to Cinema
6. Desire, Body and Capitalism: Dalit Literature and
Becoming Political in a Postcolonial World
7. The Un/Paralleled Universe of
Pramod Pati: Deleuzian Reflections on Abid, Explorer and Trip
8. Bodies,
Matter and Memory: Enfolding and Unfolding of Virtual and Actual Experiences
in Artist Part III: Territorial Multiplicities
9. Can Territoriality be
Social? Interrogating the Political of Dalit Social Inclusion in India
10.
Deleuze and the Third Gender Identity in India
11. Concepts, Singularity and
Nation-ness: Becoming-Democratic and the Question of the Political
12. Why
Deleuze Spoke So Little About Theatre?
Ian Buchanan is Professor at Institute for Social Transformation, University of Wollongong, Australia.
George Varghese K. is President, Deleuze & Guattari Studies in India Collective and former faculty at the Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities (MCPH), Manipal Academy of Higher Education, India.
Manoj N.Y. is General Secretary, Deleuze and Guattari Studies in India Collective and Visiting Research Fellow at the Global Centre for Technology in Humanities, Kyung Hee University, South Korea.
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