Deleuzian and Guattarian Approaches to Contemporary Communication Cultures in India

This book sheds new light on Indian communication cultures and the critical philosophical trajectories of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. It explores issues such as contemporary communication cultures in India, nationalism, subjectivities, negotiating and protesting bodies, music on social media, children on reality television, and the materialities of Indian films. The book provides a balance between issues of communication from a philosophical perspective and issues of philosophy from a communication perspective in the Indian context. This engaging examination of two modes of thought is an important resource for anyone interested in communication studies, modern philosophy, cultural and media studies. Preface Towards Critical Communication Studies in India References Acknowledgements Contents Editor and Contributors Bodies, Spaces, Controls and Contestations Bodies as Sites of Protests: The Case of Two Desiring Machines That Liberated Controls Introduction Body? The Affect and the Body Secularization of Religion Order-Words Transform Bodies Conclusion References Jallikattu Uprising: Rhizomatic Spatialities, Protesting Bodies and Controls Introduction The Rhizomatic Spatialities of Jallikattu Uprising at Marina Beach The Case of Controls vs Rhizomatic Spatialities Conclusion References Body and Nation: Contesting Spaces and Narratives of Nationalism Introduction Nationalism in Contemporary India Societies of Control Fascist to Micro-Fascist Micro-Fascism in Control Societies How Are Indian Bodies Defined by Micro-Fascist Elements? Leader and the People Conclusion References Political Enactments, Controls and Intuition as Communication Introduction Communication Under Control Communication Cultures in India Drawbacks in Indian Communication Culture Extended Mind and Transformations Defying Surveillance Using Instinct and Intellect to Understand the Communication Surveillance and Contemporary Communication Culture in India Intuition and Surveillance Conclusion References Resistance and Affective Power Understanding Power: Communicating Resistance Introduction Power in Democracy Shifting Sands of Democratic Politics Counter-Narratives Renaming Michael Jackson to Claim Him Renaming and Claiming Shakespeare Claiming the Invention of Aviation Claiming the Invention of Popular Products Claiming Territories Stretching Across the Globe What Followed Conclusion References Affective Milieus and Singing Bodies in a Social Musical App Introduction Digital Materiality Materiality of Smule Smule—Its Objecthood and Affect The Loss of Aura in Smule and the Heralding of Post-Media Musical Subjectivity De-territorialized Music Method Milieus, Rhythms and Smule Smule as Linguistic and Performative Rendition Becoming-Music Conclusion References Curating an Affective Push: Indian Women’s Facebook Profile Pictures and their Affective Turns Introduction Locating Identity as a Concept in the Meta-Frames of Media Culture Digital Body and Affect Discovering the Affective Push Patriarchy and Women’s Curation on Facebook Showing Class Consciousness Portraying Attractiveness The Role of Posture and Expression Fabric and Identity Conclusion References Subjectivities, Materialities and Controls Discipline, Control and Children in Tamil Reality Television Introduction Societies of Discipline and Control Controlling the Free Time Reality Television as a Society of Control Parental Discipline and Control Victims of Sexuality and Sexual Abuse Conclusion References Materialities, Subjectivities and the Symbolic Spaces of Destruction and Hope in K. G. George’s Films Introduction Conclusion References Script, Stage and Transformation: (Re)Visiting Communication Introduction Walking Through the Discourse—from Rural to Dehaat Action Research Methodology: Communicating Differently Writing with Rukrum, ‘Righting’ with Rukrum ‘Dehaat Kya Hai’? (What Is Dehaat?) Disrupting the Organization: A New Communication Culture A Movement Towards Practical Philosophy? Conclusion References Politics and the Beyond: Communication in a Transformative Praxis Introduction Meandering Village, Meandering Intoxication Acting upon Intoxication Inaugurating the Beyond Conclusion References Identity, Struggles and Survival Survival, Struggle and Identity in Dalit and Afro-American Literature Introduction Conclusion References Subjectless Subjectivities in Nayeema Mahjoor’s Lost in Terror Introduction: Desire and the Social Unconscious On the Production of Subjectless Subjectivities: Guattari’s Chaosmosis Desiring Production Molar and Molecular Regimes of Desire Lost in Terror: Subjects of Trauma Oedipal Narratives of Desire and Subjectivity Paralysis of the Civic Sphere Decimation of the “Other” The De-Territorialized Subject State Vigilance and Control Meconnaisance Azadi Conclusion References