Deleuze, Guattari and India

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.

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?