Deleuze, Guattari and India

This book presents a pragmatic engagement between the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari and various facets of Indian society, culture and art.

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?