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On the political conditions of Afghanistan post 2001; a study

Abstract
Postcolonial discourses often view globality as marking the continuation of the imperialist project. However, discourses entailing a genetic assessment of globality have identified that the workings of the neoliberal economy are largely responsible for its undoing. This mutually destructive relationship between globality and neoliberalism makes it even more necessary to strike a rupture between them. This article illustrates the strands of global and neoliberal discontent, positioning both globality and neoliberalism as arriving at cul-de sac despite vigorous effort to pretend otherwise. In particular, it dwells on the ontological status of the migrants in India by discussing the current strategy to criminalize them and uses Rahul Pandita's Our Moon has Blood Clots: A Memoir of a Lost Home in Kashmir to show how criminalized migrants may be turned, by de-globing, into natural inhabitants of the Earth.

Intro -- Half-Title Page -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface: Escaping Anthropocenity -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Toward an Epidemiology of Morals -- 2 Beyond Control: Technology, Post-Faciality and the Dance of the Abstract -- 3 Obscura Sacrificia: Covid and Neoliberalism -- 4 The Task of Thinking in The Age of Biopolitics: Between Heidegger and Deleuze -- 5 Post-Covid Communities: A Schizoanalysis of Immanent Engagements -- 6 The Limits of Perception: Knights of Narcotics, Nonhuman Aesthetics and the Psychedelic Revival -- 7 Deleuze and Guattari: The Pandemic, the Trump Presidency and the Schizo-Analytic Essay Machine -- 8 Regimes of Exclusion and Control: Politics of Modern Space and Its Role in the Immunization and Pandemics -- 9 Deleuze (and Guattari) and the Concept of Contaminated People -- 10 On the Difference between Morality and Ethics in the New Normal: Gilles Deleuze's Spinozist Ethics in the Context of COVID-19 -- 11 The Ethics of Paranoia: How to Become Worthy of COVID-19 -- 12 Thinking the COVID-19 as an Event: A Physical and Spiritual Illness in the Post-Truth Era -- 13 A Cartography of Mutual Aid Groups in Brighton: Ethics of Care and Sustainability -- Index -- Copyright.

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- 1: Biopolitics, Discipline and Governmentality -- References -- 2: The Market Lives on Death: The Endocolonizing Logic of the Fascist Moment -- Fascism? -- Policing the Post-colony -- The Consummation of Consumption -- Conclusion -- References -- 3: Technology and Biopolitics: A Deleuzian Perspective -- Agamben on COVID-19 and the Rise of Biopolitics -- Deleuze and Societies of Control -- Surveillance Technologies and the Biopolitics of Control -- Stiegler and the New Proletarianization of Consumers -- Technology and the End of Biopolitics -- Conclusion -- References -- 4: The Quandaries of Machinic Subjectivity in Félix Guattari's Chaosmosis -- The Heart of Human Subjectivity -- Machinic Hypertext -- Machinic Subjectivation -- Semioflux and Capitalist Subjectivity -- Pathic Time -- Pathic Knowledge -- Conclusion -- References -- 5: Fabulation in a Time of Algorithmic Ecology: Making the Future Possible Again -- Introduction: In the Undergrowth of Algorithmic Ecologies -- What Is It Like to Be a Generative Adversarial Network? -- The Subjugated (Disindividuated) Groups of Social Media -- Fabulation: Long-Circuiting the Algocene -- References -- 6: The Surveillance Axiomatic -- Cartographies of Surveillance -- Sense -- Knowledge -- Vigilance -- Desire -- Running in the Forest: Cybernetic Media and the Surveillance Axiomatic -- Becoming-Control -- References -- 7: Inside the Matrix: Matriarchs, Materialisms, and Machinic Being -- Conceptions of Technology -- Feminist Responses to Technology -- Cyborg Feminism -- Cyberfeminism -- Technofeminism -- New Materialist and Posthumanist Feminisms -- Recuperating the Machinic -- Technocapitalism -- References -- 8: Posthuman Urban Spaces in Dave Eggers' the Circle -- Informational and Posthuman Performativity.

Considers the contribution of Deleuze and Guattari's philosophical ideas in forging a critique of global terror and counter-terrorContains a new philosophical analysis of global terror and state reactions, as well as military aggressionArgues for a micro-level understanding of terror and counter-terror from the perspective of axiomatic thinking on power, violence and structures of dominationsConsiders different aspects of terror and analyses the basic grammar of violence that includes brutalities inherent in non-religious terror like market terror, cyber terror and social terrorWhat can philosophy offer when we suffer from brutal acts of terror and barbarous acts of counter-terror? Is the very grammar of the network of terror and anti-terror moves locked in the same ideology of power and state-ism that demands a deeper micro-analysis of human fetish for coercion and cruelty? Do we need schizoanalysis of the neurosis of terror and counter-terror where 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 inherent power structure within all forms of terror to be unpacked

The pathologies or aberrations of democracy demand critical analysis and the growing incidents of human rights violation and the repressive mechanisms of statecraft/marketocracy in the name of democracy call for a radical reformulation of existing democratic paradigms. Democracy in its existing avatar is flawed and it needs some restructuring or philosophic radicalisation. Continental thinkers such as Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida have betrayed similar concerns about the current oppressive trends in democracy. In the post-9/11 world, Derrida had talked about the Democratie a venir or the coordinates of future democracy-to-come and the Habermasian praxis of deliberative democracy also envisions an ideal emancipatory discourse of enlightened public sphere and participatory democracy which is empowering and averse to the mechanisms of neo-capital. This article argues that Arundhati Roy's angst against the comprador nature of Indian democracy has theoretical and philosophic support from the contemporary continental ethico-political philosophy of later Derrida and Giorgio Agamben. Agamben's notion of Homo Sacer and Bare Life and Derrida's outcry against autoimmunity and absolutist totalitarian democracy are similar to Roy's concern about the 'demon-crazy'.