Prof. 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 New Humanities such as Continental philosophy, Deleuze & Guattari Studies, Decolonial Studies, Environmental and Planetary studies. He was a visiting Professor at the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Oldenburg, Germany in May 2024 and in 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: Technology, Urban Space and the Networked Community (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), Deleuze and the Global Terror, (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of the Global Pandemic: Revolutionary Praxis and Neoliberal Crisis (Bloomsbury, 2023) and Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Post-Neoliberalism (Bloomsbury, 2024). Some of his forthcoming books are Religion Politics & New Materialism: Philosophical Perspectives (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025) & “Outside” Political Economy: New Networks of Media & Digitality (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025). He has published in well-known international journals such as Philosophy in Review, Deleuze Studies, Cultural politics, Theory & Event, Contemporary South Asia, and Economic and Political Weekly.
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Religion, Politics and the New Materialism: Philosophical Perspectives by Das S. S. Religion, Politics and the New Materialism: Philosophical Perspectives - (2025)
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Anecdotes, Colonial History, and Planetarity: Revisiting Decolonial Grammar with Ghosh s The Nutmeg s Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Das S. S. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa 35 97-104 (2023)
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Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Post-Neoliberalism by Das S.S., Pratihar A.R., Gorgul E. Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Post-Neoliberalism 1-182 (2024)
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Introduction: Grounding Post-Neoliberalism by Das S.S., Pratihar A.R., Sarkhel D. Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of Post-Neoliberalism 1-20 (2024)
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Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of the Global Pandemic: Revolutionary Praxis and Neoliberal Crisis by Das S. S. Deleuze, Guattari and the Schizoanalysis of the Global Pandemic: Revolutionary Praxis and Neoliberal Crisis 1-224 (2023)
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Deleuze and Guattari and Terror by Das S. S. Deleuze and Guattari and Terror 1-264 (2022)
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Technology, Urban Space and the Networked Community by Das S. S. Technology, Urban Space and the Networked Community 1-311 (2022)
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Dalit Feminism and Pedagogy: Revisiting Sharmila Rege s Transformative Scholarship by Das S. S. Gender, Place & Culture Latest 1-5 (2025)
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An Ontology of Necropolitical Governance: Otherness and Precarity of the Rohingya in Myanmar by Das S. S. Journal of Global and Postcolonial Studies. 13 88-108 (2024)
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Guthlee Ladoo: A Testimony of Persistence of Caste and Epistemic Injustice: A Critical Film Review. by Das S. S. Contemporary Voice of Dalit. 1-6 (2024)
Principal Investigator
- Postcolonialism, Posthumanism and Environment Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC), Apex Committee of SPARC, Ministry of Education
Ph. D. Students
Dan George
Area of Research: Critical Theory
Deepak Mathew
Area of Research: Postcolonial Studies
Dibyendu Sahana
Area of Research: Critical Theory
Dipra Sarkhel
Area of Research: Critical Theory
Gargee Kundu
Area of Research: Critical Theory
Guhan Priyadharshan P
Area of Research: Critical Theory
Niladri Chatterjee
Area of Research: Critical Theory
Shubhakarini K.S
Area of Research: Critical Theory
Subhradeep Chatterjee
Area of Research: Critical Theory
