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.

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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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Introduction

Gopalan Ravindran

 *1) *On the 'reinvention' of utopia: Beyond uncontrollable Capitalism

Joff P. N. Bradley

 *2) *Networks of Dissent

Padmaja Shaw

 3) Bodies as Sites of Protests; The Case of Two Desiring Machines That Liberated Controls

Arul Selvan

 *4) *Erring Pathways from Time to Time

Maurizio Candiotto

 *5) *Intuition a Method of Communication: Thinking Through Bergson and Deleuze Model

Mubeen Sadhika

 6) A Million Protesting Human Bodies in Support of Native Cattle Breeds: Jallikattu on Marina Beach, Chennai

Gopalan Ravindran

 *7) *Immanence of Vision, the Body and Amiri Baraka's Dutchman: A Deleuzian Approach Arnab Chatterjee

 8) Body and Nation: Contesting Spaces and Narratives of Nationalism

Swapna Gopinath

 9) Subject less Subjectivities in Nayeema Mahjoor's Lost in Terror: A Deleuzian Reading

Swati Singha and Trina Maitra

 10) Musical Bodies in Smule: Affective Milieus of Singing in a Social Musical App

Shuaib Mohammed Haneef