Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Deleuze, Guattari, and the Invention of the ‘Indian Diagram’
George Varghese K. and Manoj N.Y.
Part I: Deleuzian Ontology: Difference, Events and Codes
1. Deleuzian Ontology: Encounter and Experimentation
George Varghese K.
2. Virtual Ontologies: Heidegger, Deleuze and the Concept of the Event (Ereignis, événement)
Marc Rölli
3. La Gestothèque in Translation: From Body Techniques to Technologies and Back
Anne Dubos
4. Hindustani Sangeet Paddhati and the Problem of Singularity: A Deleuzian Point of View
Vibhuti Sharma
Part II: Becoming Minor/Becoming Political
5. Becoming Minor: From Literature to Cinema
Daniela Angelucci
6. Desire, Body and Capitalism: Dalit Literature and Becoming Political in a Postcolonial World
Cybil Vinodan
7. The Un/Paralleled Universe of Pramod Pati: Deleuzian Reflections on Abid, Explorer and Trip
Silika Mohapatra
8. Bodies, Matter and Memory: Enfolding and Unfolding of Virtual and Actual Experiences in Artist
Thejaswini J.C. and M. Shuaib Mohamed Haneef
Part III: Territorial Multiplicities
9. Can ‘Territoriality’ be Social? Interrogating the ‘Political’ of Dalit Social Inclusion in India
Ronki Ram
10. Deleuze and the Third Gender Identity in India
Arnab Chatterjee
11. Concepts, Singularity and Nation-ness: ‘Becoming-Democratic and the Question of the Political
Subro Saha
12. Why Deleuze Spoke So Little About Theatre?
Jean-Frédéric Chevallier
