Dr. Manoj NY is the general secretary of Deleuze and Guattari Studies in India Collective and Visiting Fellow at the Global Centre for Technology in Humanities, Kyung Hee University, South Korea. He has worked across a few disciplines – specifically Social Anthropology, English Language and Literature, and Philosophy – chiselling an interdisciplinary perspective in his research. Formerly a fellow at Centro Incontri Umani Ascona, Switzerland, currently he is associated with an international research project on Critical Postmedia Studies in Asia in collaboration with Kyung Hee University, South Korea. He was awarded the Sutasoma (London) scholarship for his doctoral research and his current research interest centers on philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, anthropology and philosophy of objects, techno-social interface and philosophy of communication and postmedia.
Publications:
- Eds Ian Buchanan, George Varghese K and Manoj NY, Deleuze, Guattari and India: Exploring a Post-postcolonial Multiplicity, Routledge, 2021
- Varghese K & Manoj NY, “Deleuze, Guattari and the Invention of Indian Diagram” in Eds Ian Buchanan, George Varghese K and Manoj NY, Deleuze, Guattari and India: Exploring a Post-postcolonial Multiplicity, Routledge, 2021
- N. Y. Manoj, Joff P. N. Bradley & Alex Taek-Gwang Lee (2020) Gadfly or praying mantis? Three philosophical perspectives on the Delhi student protests, Educational Philosophy and Theory, DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2020.1823211
Areas of Interest:
Philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, Philosophy of Objects, Anthropology of Objects, Postmedia Studies, Posthumanities, Philosophy of Communication, Philosophy of Technology
Statement of Interest:
I am thankful to Prof Debashish Banerji for his kind invitation to join this collective. My research on the anthropology and philosophy of objects and the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari critically confronts the advanced theoretical positioning of posthumanities. I find this a promising area in the domain of critical thinking.