Introductory Essay – Endnote 15

15 Molecular Polities and Mandala Politics

The theory of “molecular polities” is described in:

Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Felix, What Is Philosophy? trans. Hugh Tomlinson and Graham Burchell, (Columbia University Press, New York, 1994)

Deleuze, Gilles and Guattari, Felix, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia  trans. Brian Massumi (University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1987)

Guattari, Felix,  Molecular Revolution: Psychiatry and Politics, trans. Rosemary Sheed, (Penguin Books, London, 1984)

Chanayka, The Artmasmastra, ed. and trans. L. N. Rangaranjan, (Penguin Books, New Delhi, 1991)

The application of “mandala politics” to South and Southeast Asian states during the periods treated by these two websites is discussed in:

Tambiah, S.J., “The Galactic Polity: The Structure of Traditional Kingdoms in South Asia,” (Annals of the New York Academy  of Sciences, 293 (1), pp. 69-97, July 1977)

Wolters, O.W., History, Culture and Regions in Southeast Asian Perspectives, (Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Revised Edition, 1999, pp. 27, 142-143)

Levy, Paul A., “As in Heaven, So on Earth: The Politics of Visnu, Siva and Harihara in Pre-angkorian Khmer Civilization,” (Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 34 (1), pp. 21-39, February 2003)