Deleuze and Guattari and Terror

What can philosophy offer when we suffer from brutal acts of terror and counter-terror? Is the very grammar of the network of terror and anti-terror locked into the same ideology of power and state-ism that demands a micro-analysis of human fetishes for coercion and cruelty? Do we need schizoanalysis of the neurosis of terror and counter-terror for which the work of Deleuze and Guattari can offer insight? This collection of essays considers the contribution of Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophical ideas in forging a critique of global terror and counter-terror. Deleuze’s concept of nomadic thought provides a starting point for this fetish for coercion and terrorizing power. The contributors identify areas of political terror, state terror, capitalist corporate terror, religious terror, cyber-terror, social terror and cultural terror to enable the unpacking of inherent power structure within all forms of terror.Anindya Sekhar Purakayastha is Professor of English at Kazi Nazrul University, India.Saswat Samay Das is an Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.