Re-thinking the Conceptual Grammar of Decoloniality, Planetarity and the New Humanities with Deleuze: Towards New Assemblages

Date/Time July 16, 2026 | 3.00 – 4.30 pm (CET)

Location Online

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The talk will stress the need to open up decolonial thinking to that of Deleuze & Guattari by arguing that both remain committed to creating a non-modern, non-colonial aesthesis in their own way. The lecture will first show how the constitutionality of planetarity and decoloniality expresses the differences in how Deleuze, Heidegger, Chakrabarty and Mignolo reconstructed the prevalent imaginary of Earth, Planet, subjectivity and epistemology.
The lecture will then creatively engage with Simone Bignall's and Daryle Rigney’s 2019 essay “Indigeneity, Posthumanism and Nomad Thought: Transforming Colonial Ecologies” to show how new humanities—fragments of which are Posthumanities and planetarity—invite decolonial antagonism due to their covert association with colonial modernity. Simultaneously, the lecture will critique the decolonial imaginary of pure indigeneity and locality by using the planetary grammar. Finally, it will focus on ways to develop an assemblage of planetary decoloniality, enabling a mutually reinforcing interplay between planetarity (inflected by Deleuze & Guattari’s thinking) & decoloniality (based on Fanon’s ‘anti-colonial militantism’).

Bio
Saswat Samay Das is a Professor at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. His research aims at critically engaging with assemblages of The New Humanities such as the New Materialism, Deleuze & Guattari Studies, Decolonial Studies & the Environmental humanities. He was a visiting Professor at the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Oldenburg, Germany in May 2024 and the Department of Anglophone Literature and Culture at Göttingen University (1-15 November 2025). His books yield reconstructive insight into diverse contemporary issues and remain committed to yielding new line of flights against deadlocking mobility of global capitalism. Some of his recent books include: Religion Politics & New Materialism: Philosophical Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Post Neoliberalism (Bloomsbury, 2024), Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of the Global Pandemic: Revolutionary Praxis and Neoliberal Crisis (Bloomsbury, 2023), Deleuze and the Global Terror, (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), Technology, Urban Space and the Networked Community (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022). Two of his books that will be published this year are Deleuze, Decoloniality & Planetarity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026) and “Outside” Political Economy: New Networks of Media & Digitality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026).