Deleuzian and Guattarian Approaches to Contemporary Communication Cultures in India

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxi

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2. Bodies, Spaces, Controls and Contestations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Bodies as Sites of Protests: The Case of Two Desiring Machines That Liberated Controls

      • Arulselvan Senthivel

      Pages 3-13

   3. Jallikattu Uprising: Rhizomatic Spatialities, Protesting Bodies and Controls

      • Gopalan Ravindran

      Pages 15-31

   4. Body and Nation: Contesting Spaces and Narratives of Nationalism

      • Swapna Gopinath

      Pages 33-51

   5. Political Enactments, Controls and Intuition as Communication

      • Mubeen Sadhika

      Pages 53-69

3. Resistance and Affective Power

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71

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   2. Understanding Power: Communicating Resistance

      • Padmaja Shaw

      Pages 73-88

   3. Affective Milieus and Singing Bodies in a Social Musical App

      • M. Shuaib Mohamed Haneef

      Pages 89-106

   4. Curating an Affective Push: Indian Women’s Facebook Profile Pictures and their Affective Turns

      • Benson Rajan

      Pages 107-120

4. Subjectivities, Materialities and Controls

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. Discipline, Control and Children in Tamil Reality Television

      • Sithara Puli Venkatesh

      Pages 123-139

   3. Materialities, Subjectivities and the Symbolic Spaces of Destruction and Hope in K. G. George’s Films

      • Archana Vasudev

      Pages 141-154

   4. Script, Stage and Transformation: (Re)Visiting Communication

      • Nikita Khanna

      Pages 155-172

   5. Politics and the Beyond: Communication in a Transformative Praxis

      • Prateek

      Pages 173-187

5. Identity, Struggles and Survival

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189

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   2. Survival, Struggle and Identity in Dalit and Afro-American Literature

      • Arnab Chatterjee

      Pages 191-205

   3. Subjectless Subjectivities in Nayeema Mahjoor’s Lost in Terror

      • Swatee Sinha, Anjali Gera Roy

      Pages 207-222

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.

• Communication Cultures
• Deleuze and Guattari
• Becomings
• Asian Communication Philosophies
• Communication Media
• Critical Theories

• Department of Journalism and Communication, University of Madras, Chennai, India

  Gopalan Ravindran

Gopalan Ravindran, Ph.D., is a Professor at the Department of Journalism and Communication, University of Madras, India. He has published over 60 papers/chapters. His research and teaching activities focus on the following areas: Critical Theories and Philosophies, Political Economy of Journalism and Communication, Spatiality and Materiality of Communication, Film Cultures, Digital Cultures and Diasporic Cultures.

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