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Professor Name

Dr.Saswat Samay Das

Associate Professor

Department: Humanities and Social Sciences

University: Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India

Email: saswatdas.bapi@gmail.com/ ssd@hss.iitkgp.ac.in

Address: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Kharagpur, India , Kharagpur , Pin Code: 721302 , West Medinipur , West Bengal, India

Mobile: +91 9434019044 / +91 9883605732

Office : 03222-283610

Residence : 03222-283611

About Me

Dr. Saswat Samay Das is an Associate Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. His research critically engages with assemblages of New Humanities, in particular

  • Deleuze and Guattari Studies
  • Decolonial Studies
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • New Materialism
  • Post-Humanism
  • Speculative Realism
  • Environmental and Planetary Studies

He was a Guest Professor at the Institute of English & American Studies, University of Oldenburg, Germany, in May, 2024.

Letter of Confirmation from the Institute of English & American Studies, University of Oldenburg, Germany

& a Guest faculty at the Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. in March, 2007.

Copy of the Talk Delivered at VCU

His books yield reconstructive insights into diverse contemporary issues and remain committed to producing lines of flight against deadlocking mobility of global capitalism.

He has published in flagship journals such as

  • Philosophy in Review
  • Deleuze Studies
  • Cultural Politics
  • Contemporary South Asia
  • Theory & Event
  • South Asian Review
  • Gender, Place and Culture
  • e-Tropic
  • Postcolonial Studies
  • Green Letters
  • Economic and Political Weekly

Academic Contributions

His research has been published in renowned international journals, including:

Philosophy in Review
Deleuze Studies
Cultural Politics
Natural Language Processing
Postcolonial Studies
Green Letters

Books Published

2025

Religion, Politics and the New Materialism: Philosophical Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025)

Reviews:

Crockett, Das, and Pratihar have generated a work of extraordinary interest and cross-disciplinary attractiveness. This book's timeliness signals the materialization of both a longer term and at the same time extraordinarily fresh subject matter. The chapters are scintillating but not obscure in their transdisciplinary liveliness. Together they offer an approach that an ethically concerned theory should follow more often: they convey their indispensable economic/political/ecological practicality with an alluring creativity.Catherine Keller, Drew University, USA

Religion, Politics and New Materialism is a vital and timely collection of essays. The fragile truce among liberalism, capitalism, religion, and the environment is crumbling. The chapters, drawing on the resources of New Materialism, Energy Humanities, and Political Theology, seek to understand the nature of the truce, its limits, and what future might be possible in its wake. Taken as a whole, this collection is a tour de force of contemporary scholarship, which accompanies the reader in an urgent engagement of political imagination.Brent Adkins, Roanoke College, USA

2024

Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Post-neoliberalism (Bloomsbury USA Academic, 2024)

Reviews:

Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Post-Neoliberalismexplains why we desperately need another capitalist formula in an acute diagnosis of the post-neoliberal condition. If neoliberalism's content was it cynicism towards the mobilities and fluidities it unleashed, then post-neoliberalism's operationality is even more harrowing as it disjoins with neo-liberalism in a setting up of dead-ends, gridlocks, lines of destruction, and bewildering scenarios. The essays collected in this volume not only take-back Deleuze and Guattari from their market-happy popularizers, but offer new, hopeful reconstructive possibilities through the critical exposure of the cartographies of post-neoliberalism's vast dispositive. Gary Genosko, Professor of Communication and Digital Media, Ontario Tech University, Canada

It seems ever easier to imagine ecological collapse than an alternative to capitalism. Not only does capitalism evolve by either adapting or annihilating its critiques, the advent of a post-neoliberal world doubles down on the trap, and "we only get to sense the impossibility of taking a flight towards new emancipatory openings." These timely and often liberatory essays resist the right-wing ascendance of the latest permutation of the trap and powerfully deploy the work of Deleuze and Guattari to reactivate our capacity to reimagine the self-overcoming of our economic and political global landscape.Jason M. Wirth, Professor of Philosophy, Seattle University, USA

2023

Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of the Global Pandemic: Revolutionary Praxis and Neoliberal Crisis (Bloomsbury USA Academic, 2023)

Reviews:

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. ― Chantelle Gray, Associate Professor of Philosophy, North-West University, South Africa

Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of the Global Pandemic is a timely book which gathers together a truly international set of perspectives on our current social, political and environmental milieu. ― Hannah Stark, Associate Professor of English, University of Tasmania, Australia

2022

Deleuze and Guattari and Terror (Edinburgh University Press, UK, 2022)

2022

Technology, Urban Space and the Networked Community (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

2013

The Taking Place of Language': Contemporizing the Debate about the Representation of Nation within Bhasa Writing and Indian Writing in English (Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissensc, New edition (7 October 2013))

ForthComingBooks/ Contracts Received

2025

Deleuze, Decoloniality and Planetarity (Palgrave Macmillan 2025)

2025

Beyond the Capitalist Economy – Creating New Media and Digital Networks (Palgrave Macmillan 2025)

2025

Towards Planetary Justice: Reinventing the Postcolonial through Deleuze and Zizek (Routledge 2025)

2025

Problematizing Post-anthropocentrisms in the Anthropocene (Bloomsbury Publishing India Pvt.Ltd 2026)