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Dr.Saswat Samay Das
Associate Professor
Department: Humanities and Social Sciences
University: Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India
Email: saswatdas.bapi@gmail.com/ ssd@hss.iitkgp.ac.in
Address: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur, India , Kharagpur , Pin Code: 721302 , West Medinipur , West Bengal, India
Mobile: +91 9434019044 / +91 9883605732
Office : 03222-283610
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About Me
Dr. Saswat Samay Das is an Associate Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. His research critically engages with assemblages of New Humanities, in particular
He was a Guest Professor at the Institute of English & American Studies, University of Oldenburg, Germany, in May, 2024. & a Guest faculty at the Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. in March, 2007. His books yield reconstructive insights into diverse contemporary issues and
remain committed to producing lines of flight against deadlocking mobility of global
capitalism.
He has published in flagship
journals such as
Academic Contributions
His research has been published in renowned international journals, including:
Philosophy in Review
Deleuze Studies
Cultural Politics
Natural Language Processing
Postcolonial Studies
Green Letters
Books Published
Religion, Politics and the New Materialism: Philosophical Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)
Reviews:
Crockett, Das, and Pratihar have generated a work of extraordinary interest and cross-disciplinary attractiveness. This book's timeliness signals the materialization of both a longer term and at the same time extraordinarily fresh subject matter. The chapters are scintillating but not obscure in their transdisciplinary liveliness. Together they offer an approach that an ethically concerned theory should follow more often: they convey their indispensable economic/political/ecological practicality with an alluring creativity.Catherine Keller, Drew University, USA
Religion, Politics and New Materialism is a vital and timely collection of essays. The fragile truce among liberalism, capitalism, religion, and the environment is crumbling. The chapters, drawing on the resources of New Materialism, Energy Humanities, and Political Theology, seek to understand the nature of the truce, its limits, and what future might be possible in its wake. Taken as a whole, this collection is a tour de force of contemporary scholarship, which accompanies the reader in an urgent engagement of political imagination.Brent Adkins, Roanoke College, USA
Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Post-neoliberalism (Bloomsbury USA Academic, 2024)
Reviews:
Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Post-Neoliberalismexplains why we desperately need another capitalist formula in an acute diagnosis of the post-neoliberal condition. If neoliberalism's content was it cynicism towards the mobilities and fluidities it unleashed, then post-neoliberalism's operationality is even more harrowing as it disjoins with neo-liberalism in a setting up of dead-ends, gridlocks, lines of destruction, and bewildering scenarios. The essays collected in this volume not only take-back Deleuze and Guattari from their market-happy popularizers, but offer new, hopeful reconstructive possibilities through the critical exposure of the cartographies of post-neoliberalism's vast dispositive. Gary Genosko, Professor of Communication and Digital Media, Ontario Tech University, Canada
It seems ever easier to imagine ecological collapse than an alternative to capitalism. Not only does capitalism evolve by either adapting or annihilating its critiques, the advent of a post-neoliberal world doubles down on the trap, and "we only get to sense the impossibility of taking a flight towards new emancipatory openings." These timely and often liberatory essays resist the right-wing ascendance of the latest permutation of the trap and powerfully deploy the work of Deleuze and Guattari to reactivate our capacity to reimagine the self-overcoming of our economic and political global landscape.Jason M. Wirth, Professor of Philosophy, Seattle University, USA
Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of the Global Pandemic: Revolutionary Praxis and Neoliberal Crisis (Bloomsbury USA Academic, 2023)
Reviews:
Using the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, this collection of chapters grapples, in various ways, with what it means to engage a revolutionary praxis in the face of a global pandemic, and how to do so without falling prey to our little Oedipuses, our own dogmatic images of thought. ― Chantelle Gray, Associate Professor of Philosophy, North-West University, South Africa
Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of the Global Pandemic is a timely book which gathers together a truly international set of perspectives on our current social, political and environmental milieu. ― Hannah Stark, Associate Professor of English, University of Tasmania, Australia
The Taking Place of Language': Contemporizing the Debate about the Representation of Nation within Bhasa Writing and Indian Writing in English (Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc, New edition (7 October 2013))
ForthComingBooks/ Contracts Received
Beyond the Capitalist Economy – Creating New Media and Digital Networks (Palgrave Macmillan 2025)
Towards Planetary Justice: Reinventing the Postcolonial through Deleuze and Zizek (Routledge 2025)
Problematizing Post-anthropocentrisms in the Anthropocene (Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt.Ltd 2026)