ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |18 pages

Introduction

Deleuze, Guattari, and the invention of the ‘Indian diagram’

part I|90 pages

Deleuzian ontology

chapter 1|27 pages

Deleuzian ontology

Encounter and experimentation

chapter 2|12 pages

Virtual ontologies

Heidegger, Deleuze and the concept of the event (ereignis, événement) 1

chapter 3|29 pages

La Gestothèque in translation

From body techniques to technologies and back

chapter 4|20 pages

Hindustani Sangeet Paddhati and the problem of singularity

A Deleuzian point of view

part II|70 pages

Becoming minor/becoming political

chapter 5|14 pages

Becoming minor

From literature to cinema

chapter 6|19 pages

Desire, body and capitalism

Dalit literature and becoming political in a postcolonial world

chapter 7|14 pages

The un/paralleled universe of Pramod Pati

Deleuzian reflections on Abid, Explorer and Trip

chapter 8|21 pages

Bodies, matter and memory

Enfolding and unfolding of virtual and actual experiences in Artist

part III|72 pages

Territorial multiplicities

chapter 9|18 pages

Can ‘territoriality’ be social?

Interrogating the ‘political’ of dalit social inclusion in India 1

chapter 11|20 pages

Concepts, singularity and nation-ness

‘Becoming-democratic’ and the question of the political