Sudeep Dasgupta
Biographic Data
| ID | 3881033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sudeep Dasgupta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sudeep |
| FAMILY NAME | Dasgupta |
| SIGNATURE | DASGUPTA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Amsterdam |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Spell of Capital
This book explores the tradition, impact, and contemporary relevance of two key ideas from Western Marxism: Georg Lukács's concept of reification, in which social aspects of humanity are viewed in objectified terms, and Guy Debord's concept of the spectacle, where the world is packaged and presented to consumers in uniquely mediated ways. Bringing the original, yet now often forgotten, theoretical contexts for these terms back to the fore, Johan …
(Dis)locating the Subject, Moving the Image and Reasoning with History
“Idealism,” unlike realism and materialism, has not featured much in philosophical engagements with film. Representation, redemption, construction – these terms marked philosophical debates on the image’s relation to reality (Bazin, Hansen). A Deleuzian perspective focused on the reality of the image, while the turn to “affect,” the “body,” and “feelings” reframed the image in “materialist” terms (Deleuze, Sobchack, Marks, Massumi, Ngai). The phi…
What's Queer about Europe?
What’s Queer about Europe is not about queer communities in Europe. It is about the ways in which Queer Theory helps us initiate disorienting conjunctions and counter-intuitive encounters for imagining historical and contemporary Europe. The encounter between a queer perspective and Europe forces a reconsideration of both. This book queers Europe and Europeanizes queer. It refracts received understandings of queer through analyses of historical a…
What's Queer about Europe
Permanent Transiency, Tele-visual Spectacle, and the Slum as Postcolonial Monument
With their makeshift structures and seemingly itinerant inhabitants, slums suggest transiency. Yet, like monuments, they acquire a paradoxical permanency in the context of continual social upheaval, the historical ebbs and flows of the nation-state, and the economic transformations engendered by global capitalism. Like monuments, then, they mark a politics of history and memory in their changing spatial dimensions and political valences. The spat…
Policing the people
In TELEVISION STUDIES: A SHORT INTRODUCTION, Jonathan Gray and Amanda D. Lotz argue for ‘television studies as an approach to studying media’ rather than as ‘a field for the study of a singular medium’. The critique of ‘Quality TV’, I argue, furthers the disciplinary lure of medium singularity by recourse to essentialising notions of ‘the people’ and by extension ‘popular culture’. A simplistic equation between aesthetics, audiences, and programs…
Conjunctive Times, Disjointed Time
Constellations of the Transnational
Whither Culture? Globalization, Media and the Promises of Cultural Studies
Beyond 'race thinking
Policing the people
In TELEVISION STUDIES: A SHORT INTRODUCTION, Jonathan Gray and Amanda D. Lotz argue for ‘television studies as an approach to studying media’ rather than as ‘a field for the study of a singular medium’. The critique of ‘Quality TV’, I argue, furthers the disciplinary lure of medium singularity by recourse to essentialising notions of ‘the people’ and by extension ‘popular culture’. A simplistic equation between aesthetics, audiences, and programs…
Beyond 'race thinking
Constellations of the Transnational
Whither Culture? Globalization, Media and the Promises of Cultural Studies
Conjunctive Times, Disjointed Time
Policing the people
In TELEVISION STUDIES: A SHORT INTRODUCTION, Jonathan Gray and Amanda D. Lotz argue for ‘television studies as an approach to studying media’ rather than as ‘a field for the study of a singular medium’. The critique of ‘Quality TV’, I argue, furthers the disciplinary lure of medium singularity by recourse to essentialising notions of ‘the people’ and by extension ‘popular culture’. A simplistic equation between aesthetics, audiences, and programs…
Permanent Transiency, Tele-visual Spectacle, and the Slum as Postcolonial Monument
With their makeshift structures and seemingly itinerant inhabitants, slums suggest transiency. Yet, like monuments, they acquire a paradoxical permanency in the context of continual social upheaval, the historical ebbs and flows of the nation-state, and the economic transformations engendered by global capitalism. Like monuments, then, they mark a politics of history and memory in their changing spatial dimensions and political valences. The spat…
What's Queer about Europe?
What’s Queer about Europe is not about queer communities in Europe. It is about the ways in which Queer Theory helps us initiate disorienting conjunctions and counter-intuitive encounters for imagining historical and contemporary Europe. The encounter between a queer perspective and Europe forces a reconsideration of both. This book queers Europe and Europeanizes queer. It refracts received understandings of queer through analyses of historical a…
What's Queer about Europe
(Dis)locating the Subject, Moving the Image and Reasoning with History
“Idealism,” unlike realism and materialism, has not featured much in philosophical engagements with film. Representation, redemption, construction – these terms marked philosophical debates on the image’s relation to reality (Bazin, Hansen). A Deleuzian perspective focused on the reality of the image, while the turn to “affect,” the “body,” and “feelings” reframed the image in “materialist” terms (Deleuze, Sobchack, Marks, Massumi, Ngai). The phi…
The Spell of Capital
This book explores the tradition, impact, and contemporary relevance of two key ideas from Western Marxism: Georg Lukács's concept of reification, in which social aspects of humanity are viewed in objectified terms, and Guy Debord's concept of the spectacle, where the world is packaged and presented to consumers in uniquely mediated ways. Bringing the original, yet now often forgotten, theoretical contexts for these terms back to the fore, Johan …
Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (2 works) · Dialectic (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Globalization and Cultural Identity (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works)