Postmedia in India 

Deleuzo-Guattarian concept of machinic assemblages is a potential concept to analyse the nuances of the present day world steeped in the grips of an inordinate techno-regime bifurcated into the material side of sophisticated machines, engines, weapons, and suchlike hardwares on the one side, and an immaterial complement constituted of internet, digital imaginary, cyborgs, and computer viruses, and so on, on the other side. It is not the ethical ontological framework in which Deleuze and Guattari posed the problem unlike Heidegger, but they consider it as assemblages. So the nihilistic or saving potential of technology or technology in toto were not the concern of Deleuze and Guattari, but the machinic aspects of it with multiple dimensions and implications.  Machines are not technical gadgets, but assemblages of component parts interacting between them in a specific manner. Again, machines are multiplicities with wide-ranging material and immaterial locations and niches. So, there are material machines and immaterial machines, technical machines and abstract machines, social machines and military machines, and so on. They also form larger complexes of one embedded within the other, forming “machinic assemblages”. This is an adequate concept to explore the posthuman ecology of media in its complexities and the complications that it offers.

DGSIC proposes to extend the project on Postmedia research in India, after the successful completion of the International Workshop on Posthuman Technoscapes held as part of the Deleuze and Guattari World Congress 2020. We would like to collaborate with universities, research centres and other institutions across India to conduct workshops/seminars/conferences on the Postmedia research in India. Those who wish to collaborate with us in conducting workshops/conferences, please write to  Dr Manoj NY, Gen Secretary, DGSIC (deleuze.india@gmail.com/manojny.net@gmail.com)

Project Director/Coordinator : Dr Manoj NY, Gen Secretary, DGSIC