Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of the Global Pandemic

Saswat Samay Das is Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. Ananya Roy Pratihar is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Management and Information Science, Bhubaneswar, India.

• Introduction, Paul Patton (Wuhan University, China)1. Toward an Epidemiology of Morals, Clayton Crockett (University of Central Arkansas, USA)2. Beyond Control: Technology, Post-Faciality and the Dance of the Abstract, Brad Evans (University of Bath, UK), Chantal Meza (University of Bath, UK)3. Obscura Sacrificia: COVID and Neoliberalism, Brent Adkins (Roanoke College, USA)4. Pandemic, Biopolitics and the Task of Thinking: Between Heidegger and Deleuze, See Sin Heng Tony (National University of Singapore, Singapore)5. Post-Covid Communities: Immanent Engagements and Intersectional Transversality, Janae Sholtz (Alvernia University, USA)6. The Limits of Perception: Knights of Narcotics, Nonhuman Aesthetics and the Psychedelic Reviva, Patricia Pisters (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) 7. Deleuze and Guattari, The Pandemic, the Trump Presidency and the Schizo-Analytic Essay Machine, Damian Ward Hey (Molloy College, USA)8. Regimes of Exclusion and Control: Politics of Modern Space and Its Role in the Pandemics, Emine Gorgul (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)9. Deleuze (and Guattari) and the Concept of Contaminated People, Virgilio Rivas (Polytechnic University of the Philippines, Philippines) 10. Disease as Terror: The New Global Conflict, Kyle Novak (University of Guelph, Canada)11. The Ethics of Paranoia: How to Become Worthy of COVID-19?, Jernej Makrelj (Cardiff University, UK) 12.Thinking the Covid-19 as an Event: A Physical And Spiritual Illness in the Post-Truth Era, Francisco J. Alcalá (University of Barcelona, Spain)13. A Cartography of Mutual Aid Groups in Brighton: Ethics of Care and Sustainability, Elizabeth Vasileva (Anglia Ruskin University, UK)Index

Using the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, this collection of chapters grapples, in various ways, with what it means to engage a revolutionary praxis in the face of a global pandemic, and how to do so without falling prey to our little Oedipuses, our own dogmatic images of thought.