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Half Title Deleuze and Guattari and Terror Series Page Deleuze Connections ‘It is not the elements or the sets which define the multiplicity. What defines it is the AND, as something which has its place between the elements or between the sets. AND, AND, AND – stammering.’ Gilles Deleuze and Claire Parnet, Dialogues General Editor Ian Buchanan Editorial Advisory Board Keith Ansell-Pearson Gregg Lambert Rosi Braidotti Adrian Parr Claire Colebrook Paul Patton Tom Conley Patricia Pisters Titles Available in the Series Ian Buchanan and Claire Colebrook (eds), Deleuze and Feminist Theory Ian Buchanan and John Marks (eds), Deleuze and Literature Mark Bonta and John Protevi (eds), Deleuze and Geophilosophy Ian Buchanan and Marcel Swiboda (eds), Deleuze and Music Ian Buchanan and Gregg Lambert (eds), Deleuze and Space Martin Fuglsang and Bent Meier Sørensen (eds), Deleuze and the Social Ian Buchanan and Adrian Parr (eds), Deleuze and the Contemporary World Constantin V. 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Posteraro (eds), Deleuze and Evolutionary Theory Rick Dolphijn and Rosi Braidotti (eds), Deleuze and Guattari and Facism Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha and Saswat Samay Das (eds), Deleuze and Guattari and Terror Visit the Deleuze Connections website at: www.edinburghuniversitypress.com/series/delco Title Page Deleuze and Guattari and Terror Edited by Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha and Saswat Samay Das Copyright Edinburgh University Press is one of the leading university presses in the UK. We publish academic books and journals in our selected subject areas across the humanities and social sciences, combining cutting-edge scholarship with high editorial and production values to produce academic works of lasting importance. For more information visit our website: edinburghuniversitypress.com © editorial matter and organisation Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha and Saswat Samay Das, 2023 © the chapters their several authors, 2023 Cover design: River Design, Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press Ltd The Tun – Holyrood Road 12(2f) Jackson’s Entry Edinburgh EH8 8PJ Typeset in 10.5/13 Adobe Sabon by Cheshire Typesetting Ltd, Cuddington, Cheshire and printed and bound in Great Britain A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 1 3995 0986 2 (hardback) ISBN 978 1 3995 0988 6 (webready PDF) ISBN 978 1 3995 0989 3 (epub) The right of Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha and Saswat Samay Das to be identified as the editors of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, and the Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 (SI No. 2498). Contents Contents Acknowledgements vii Introduction: Chaosophy Notes: Terror, the Seventh War Machine 1 Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha and Saswat Samay Das 1 The War on Terror versus the War Machine 30 Claire Colebrook 2 Guattari and Terror: Radicalisation as Singularisation 44 Janell Watson 3 Creative Resistance: An Aesthetics of Creative Affect in a Time of Global Terror 60 Janae Sholtz 4 The Inhospitality of the Global North: Deleuze, Neo-colonialism and Conflict-caused Migration 84 Don Johnston 5 Suicided by A Life: Deleuze, Terror and the Search for the ‘Middle Way’ 104 S. Romi Mukherjee 6 What if, What One Needs to Cure Oneself of is the Cure? The Clandestine Complicity of Opponents 132 Anup Dhar 7 Terror and the Time-Image: How Not to Believe in the World 152 Clayton Crockett vi Contents 8 The Image of Terror: Art, ISIS, Iconoclasm and the Question of the People to Come 171 Julian Reid 9 Deleuze, the Simulacrum and the Screening of Terror Online 184 Yasmin Ibrahim 10 Islands of Sorrow, Ships of Despair: Nativism Resurgent and Spectacles of Terror 204 Arthur Kroker 11 The Spectacle of Terror 226 Samir Gandesha Notes on Contributors 237 Index 241 Acknowledgements Acknowledgements Perhaps this book was molecularised during our regular discussions since 2008 at various tea stalls at IIT Kharagpur on different debates in Continental philosophy and critical theory. Amid the surrounding cacophony and comforting greenery, we used to revisit the genealogies of the Frankfurt School, making Jurgen Habermas and his theory of public sphere communicative rationality the key point of our tea table talks for unending hours. Nostalgia has a soothing effect when reminiscing about those fascinating hours of pure discussion and vibrant glow. Those were indeed blissful moments of daring, emboldening us to intervene in these critical theoretical debates from our positions in the Global South. Needless to say, we were beginners at this job, but that did not diminish the thrill and excitement of walking with those great world-philosophical minds. Long walks on the sprawling campus of IIT Kharagpur, endless discussions and dreams along the empty corridors of the Humanities and Social Science Department, bouts of pure joy and humorous rides through different cobwebs of philosophy and Zizekean thunders sustained us, and we cruised along. Books were in short supply as very few were doing critical theory in that rigorous manner in India at that time, but thanks to Ravi Swamy and the Central Library of IIT Kharagpur, a generous flow of the latest books and journals in this field was supplied, a facility that whetted our appetite further, helping us to accentuate the momentum of critical theoretical practices. Giovanna Borradori’s profound conversation with Derrida and Habermas in her Philosophy in a Time of Terror (2003) arrived, and as we pored over it, we realised the need to revisit the genealogies of the entire critical theoretical tradition. We decided to move beyond Kant, Habermas and Derrida, our first loves, and discovered the radical glories of Deleuze and Guattari, realising that we had chanced upon people who seemed to have analysed the problems afflicting the modern world in a better viii Acknowledgements way. Our deeper investment in studying political, social as well as ontic violence drew us closer to Deleuzo-Guttarian schizoanalysis and the larger concepts of process philosophy. Everyday news reports of political atrocities happening in different parts of the world at that time would intrude into our regular discussions, and we were deeply disturbed, confronting the same question time and again: how to offer some philosophical solace amid this descending gloom unfolding through neoliberal policies, systemic violence, heinous terror attacks and equally demonic counter-terror violence, militarism, the violence of ‘homonationalism’, right-wing political attacks, racial hatred, dogma-driven animosities, profiteering and ecocide – the list can go on. None of these, we felt, could be deciphered through normative critical theoretical frames, as they demand Deleuzean schizonanalysis. Our flirtation with Deleuze and Guattari was still quivering at the threshold of possibility until we invited Ian Buchanan to speak at IIT Kharagpur on Deleuzism. Ian’s warmth and refreshing encouragement dispelled all hesitancy at our end, prompting us to think of working on a project related to Deleuze, Guattari and spirituality or Deleuze, Guattari and terror. A series of discussions followed at different locations in Kolkata, and Ian’s valuable input during our sojourn at Kolkata’s Park Street helped us to settle on the second option. This was the beginning of an arduous journey, as we began to look for Deleuze scholars and potential contributors with proven track records in this field. Without Ian’s constant support this would not have been possible. As often happens with edited volumes, the initial euphoria eclipsed as some contributors had to withdraw for health reasons or because of other personal difficulties, and so it took us longer to complete the project than we had thought initially in 2016. Finally, we gathered a brilliant constellation of wonderful contributors and we profusely thank all of them for being part of this project, and for agreeing to contribute in spite of their other academic preoccupations. In between times, our love for Deleuze and Guattari brought us into close contact with other leading Deleuze scholars, and we take this opportunity to thank each of them for their support and profound input. We convey our gratitude to Ian Buchanan, Nathan Widder, Nicholas Tampio, Janae Sholtz, Ajay Gudavarthy, A. Raghuramaraju and Anup Dhar, who have been great interlocutors and guides in our Deleuzean journey. We benefited immensely through our conversations with them during their stays at IIT Kharagpur, where they spoke in detail as invited speakers on different aspects of Continental philosophy and Deleuze. The 2017 Deleuze conference at Tata Institute for Social Sciences, Mumbai, Acknowledgements ix also proved to be immensely helpful as we learned from other leading Deleuze scholars such as Brian Massumi, Erin Manning, Kenneth Surin and many others. We remembered that academic gathering with fond memories as we worked through this manuscript. Special mention of our stay at Potsdam, Germany, during the 2014 ASNEL conference is in order here, as it saw us conversing with many scholars working on post- colonial interventions in critical theory. Our adventure around the Berlin Wall, Humboldt University and Hegel’s grave in Berlin provided the impetus to continue our critical theoretical flirtations. We also remem- ber people who helped us in different ways during the course of this book. Thomas Byers, former director of the Centre for Commonwealth Studies, University of Louisville, was a wonderful host and guide in picking up the latest books on philosophy and critical theory in Green Apple Books and City Lights at San Francisco when one of us went for a fellowship stay at the University of Louisville. Both of us express our deep gratitude to our parents and family members who have been of constant support throughout. We also thank our friends and colleagues who provided moral and intellectual support. At Edinburgh University Press, we once again thank Ian Buchanan, the series editor, and Carol Macdonald and Sarah Foyle, the commissioning editors, who have been of wonderful support. We are grateful to the two anonymous readers for their remarkable comments which helped in improving the manuscript. We sincerely hope this volume will offer some fresh insights in the domain of Deleuze and Guattari studies.
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