Deleuze, Guattari and India: Exploring a Post-Postcolonial Multiplicity

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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. Cover Half Title Endorsement Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of figures Acknowledgements List of contributors Introduction: Deleuze, Guattari, and the invention of the ‘Indian diagram’ Assemblage: Greek Phalanx and Foucaldian Panopticon Caste and diagram: two brahmin variations Concepts as multiplicity Deleuzian ontology: difference, events, and codes Becoming minor/becoming political Territorial multiplicities Notes References Part I: Deleuzian ontology: Difference, events and codes Chapter 1: Deleuzian ontology: Encounter and experimentation The dogmatic image of thought and the problem of difference The ‘Univocity of Being’: Dun Scotus, Spinoza and Deleuze Transcendental empiricism and the virtual From ontogenesis to plane of immanence Assemblage and Deterritorialisation References Chapter 2: Virtual ontologies: Heidegger, Deleuze and the concept of the event (ereignis, événement) 1 Notes References Chapter 3: La Gestothèque in translation: From body techniques to technologies and back Foreword Introduction Culture is not a text but a performance What happens between the zero and the one? From body techniques Towards an archaeology of the gesture Morphogenetics of theatre Topology of performance How does improvisation split the thread of tradition? Theatre depicted as a communication model The social life of gestures The archive of gesture To technologies Ghost in the shell Technology as a post-colonial criticism tool: on time scaling and gesture matter And back From a topological point of view to an atlas of gesture Necropolitics and other perspectives The gesture access to techno-criticism 19 The matter of gesture Conclusion Post-scriptum Acknowledgment Notes References Chapter 4: Hindustani Sangeet Paddhati and the problem of singularity: A Deleuzian point of view On the problem of refrain Elements in a series ‘Point of view’ or on the question of singularity Notes References Part II: Becoming minor/becoming political Chapter 5: Becoming minor: From literature to cinema Against the metaphor Against the interior life Minor screens ‘The flagrant offence of making up legends’ Notes References Chapter 6: Desire, body and capitalism: Dalit literature and becoming political in a postcolonial world Politics of postcoloniality and dalit literature Becoming/possessing a body (or the biopolitics of citizenship) Becoming dalit Desire, postcoloniality and dalit literature Becoming political Capitalism and dalit literature Conclusion References Chapter 7: The un/paralleled universe of Pramod Pati: Deleuzian reflections on Abid, Explorer and Trip ABID: a rhizomic assemblage of difference Explorer and psychotropic politics of time Trip and motion in a deterritorialised landscape Notes References Films Chapter 8: Bodies, matter and memory: Enfolding and unfolding of virtual and actual experiences in Artist Assemblage and differently-abled bodies Virtual past and actual present Enfolding and unfolding: the ceaseless flow of images Rhizomatic relations in bodies Laura marks’ aesthetics of enfolding and unfolding Multiplicities in singularities and difference in repetition Difference, disability and repetition Analysis Nonlinear temporalities in Artist Beyond boundaries: Michael and bodies Movement of bodies in the film Artist Difference through repetition in Artist Aesthetics of enfolding and unfolding in Michael and his paintings in the film artist Conclusion Note References Part III: Territorial multiplicities Chapter 9: Can ‘territoriality’ be social?: Interrogating the ‘political’ of dalit social inclusion in India 1 Mapping dalit ‘territoriality’ Dalit territories and counter-cultures Territorial sacralisation and dalit assertion Dalit territories and the challenge of social mobility Dalit territories and the ‘political’ of social inclusion Notes References Chapter 10: Deleuze and the third gender identity in India The third gender: issues at work and a general overview The TG: a subcultural category? Deleuze and the Indian context: the legal scenario Destabilising hierarchies—a feminist analysis The third gender with recourse to select Deleuzian and Guattarist concepts Deterritorialisation Becoming Recent medical research and the third gender: further observations Conclusion Appendix Notes References Chapter 11: Concepts, singularity and nation-ness: ‘Becoming-democratic’ and the question of the political Notes References Chapter 12: Why Deleuze spoke so little about theatre? Notes References Index