PUBLISHED BOOKS

Technology, Urban Space and the Networked Community (2022)

This collection stages a dynamic scholarly debate about the ambivalent workings of technocapitalism and humanism in urban spaces. Such workings are intended to provide multiple forms of autonomy and empowerment but instead create intolerable contradictions that are experienced in the form of a slavish adherence to machines. Representing the novelty of a post-anthropocentric grammar, this book points towards a new ethical and political praxis. It challenges the anthropocentrism of bio politics and neoliberalism in order to express the constitutive potential of an eco-sensible ‘new earth.

Editors : Saswat Samay Das and Ananya Roy Pratihar

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of the Global Pandemic: Revolutionary Praxis and Neoliberal Crisis (2023)

A vital response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this volume connects the neoliberal underpinnings of the pandemic to the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari. By positioning the worst outcomes of the COVID-19 crisis in terms of neoliberal normativity, contributors argue that we need to understand the pandemic rhizomatically. Construed as an event that deterritorializes the globe, the crisis of the pandemic contains within it the potential for creating new assemblages, alliances, and solidarities to offset the power of the state in building regimes of exclusion, insulation and control. Deleuzo Guattarian attention towards non-human life finds new meaning in the context of the virus, and our understanding of what constitutes life and inorganic life..

Editors : Saswat Samay Das and Ananya Roy Pratihar

Series Editor: Ian Buchanan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Post-Neoliberalism (2024)

The collection which shall be brought out by BLOOMSBURY PUBLICATION brings together provocative critiques and ethico-political interventions from Deleuzo-Guattarian perspective that might work as an ally of existing modes of enquiries into the strata of post-neoliberal conditions while acting as a milestone in the trajectory of ongoing debates on mutations of neoliberalism.

Editors : Saswat Samay Das, Ananya Roy Pratihar & Emine Gorgul

Series Editor: Ian Buchanan

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Deleuze and Guattari and Terror (2022)

This work explores the contribution of Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophical ideas in forging a critique of global terror and counter-terror, offering a new philosophical analysis of both terror and state reactions, including military aggression. It argues for a micro-level understanding of terror and counter-terror through the lens of axiomatic thinking on power, violence, and structures of domination. Additionally, it examines various aspects of terror and analyzes the fundamental grammar of violence, encompassing brutalities inherent in non-religious forms of terror such as market terror, cyber terror, and social terror.

Editors : Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha and Saswat Samay Das

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Religion, Politics and the New Materialism: Philosophical Perspectives

This book draws on philosophical ideas loosely related to the New Materialism to engage with critical issues of religion and politics in the world today. We argue that New Materialism offers productive tools to understand and engage with the intersections of politics and religion in the context of the Anthropocene. Further, the collection addresses the critical role of religion in the world today, and how it is caught up in the transition from modern liberalism to postmodern neoliberalism. We will explore how religion is always implicated in political formations, as well as how modern politics has religious influences and effects. The interconnection and interaction between religion and politics must be set within a planetary context, because we are learning more and more about the human role and impact on the climate.

Editors : Clayton Crokett, Saswat Samay Das & Ananya Roy Pratihar

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Beyond the Capitalist Economy – Creating New Media and Digital Networks

“Beyond Networks of Domination: Rethinking Machinic Media, Digitality & Cinema of Our Times” examines the complex dynamics of media, digitality, and cinema as networks of power and resistance. This volume investigates the biopolitical mechanisms that convert these networks into instruments of domination, while concurrently investigating their potential to inspire revolutionary change. The contributors critically engage with the theoretical frameworks of Deleuze, Guattari, Haraway, Latour, and others, examining concepts such as machinic media and the informatics of domination. The book is intended for academicians, researchers, and practitioners in critical humanities, media studies, and cultural theory. It explores the dualities of control and liberation that are inherent in digital and cinematic networks. It proposes new theoretical and practical methodologies to transcend the limitations of current biopolitical constructs and addresses urgent questions about the efficacy of networked resistance movements such as the Arab Spring and Occupy Movement. This volume serves as a clarion call for creative and innovative approaches to rethinking media and its role in influencing the sociopolitical landscape of our times by integrating perspectives on machinic materiality, schizoanalysis, and nomad science.

Editors : Ananya Roy Pratihar, Saswat Samay Das and Shashi Bhusan Nayak

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Publication Status: Ongoing