Deleuze and Guattari and Terror

Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha is Professor of English at Kazi Nazrul University, India. He was Fulbright Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellow 2018-19 at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He was also a Fellow at the Institute for Critical Social Inquiry, New School for Social Research, New York in 2017. Among his recent authored and co-edited volumes are Violence in South Asia: Contemporary Perspectives (Routledge, 2019), Literature, Cultural Politics and Counter-readings: Hamlet as the Prince of Deconstruction (Aakar Books, 2019). He co-edits Kairos, A Journal of Critical Symposium and is one of the founding members of the Postcolonial Studies Association of the Global South (PSAGS). Saswat Samay Das is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He is co-editor of Deleuze, Guattari, and the Global Pandemic: Revolutionary Praxis and Neoliberal Crisis (Bloomsbury) and Deleuze, Guattari and Post-neoliberalism (Bloomsbury). He is the leading editor of Technology, Urban Space and the Networked Community, Palgrave Macmillan (forthcoming).

• Introduction: Chaosophy Notes: Terror, the Seventh War Machine, Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha & Saswat Samay Das The War on Terror versus the War Machine, Claire Colebrook, Pennsylvania State University Guattari and Terror: Radicalization as Singularization, Janell Watson, Virginia TechCreative Resistance: Thinking of Deleuze and an Aesthetics of Creative Affect in a Time of Global Terror, Janae Sholtz, Alvernia UniversityThe Inhospitality of the Global North: Deleuze, Neo-colonialism and Conflict-Caused Migration, Don Johnston, University of New South Wales Suicided by « A Life : » Deleuze, Terror, and the Search for the “Middle Way”, S. Romi Mukherjee, New York University, Paris Campus What if, What one needs to Cure oneself of is the Cure?: Clandestine Complicity of Opponents, Anup Dhar, Ambedkar UniversityTerror and Time-Image: How Not to Believe in the World, Clayton Crockett, University of Central ArkansasThe Image of Terror, Terror of the Image, Julian Reid, Lapland UniversityDeleuze, Simulacrum and the Screening of Terror Online, Yasmin Ibrahim, Queen Mary, University of LondonIslands of Sorrow, Ships of Despair: Nativism Resurgent and Spectacles of Terror, Arthur Kroker, University of VictoriaThe Spectacle of Terror, Samir Gandesha, Simon Fraser University