Lata Mani

Myriad Intimacies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Myriad Intimacies postcolonial theorist, spiritual practitioner, and filmmaker Lata Mani oscillates between text and video, poetry and prose, genre and form, register and voice, and secular and sacred to offer a transmedia exploration of the interrelatedness of lives, concepts, frameworks, and aspects of self. She draws on concepts from tantra-a philosophy that celebrates matter as alive, embodiment as sacred, and the senses as a form of intelligence-alongside feminist, critical race, and cultural theory to meditate on the ways in which everyone and everything exists in mutually constitutive interrelations. Addressing issues ranging from desire, the body, nature, and love, to otherness, identity politics, social justice, #MeToo, and the COVID-19 pandemic, Mani foregrounds the power and necessity of recognizing relationality as foundational. Throughout, she offers a way of reframing what we think we know and how we come to know it, demonstrating that it is only by acknowledging and embracing the indivisible and interdependent nature of existence that we restore our true intimacy with each other and the world.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 120
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 338g
• ISBN-13: 9781478015659
• ISBN-10: 1478015659
• Artikelnr.: 62548818

Autorenporträt

Lata Mani is an independent scholar and filmmaker and author of The Integral Nature of Things: Critical Reflections on the Present and SacredSecular: Contemplative Cultural Critique.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Videos  ix
Acknowledgments  xi
In your hands this book  xiii
Introduction. Integral Entanglements, Formal Experiments  1
1. The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Tantric Invitation to Humanity  9
2. The Nocturnes with Nicolás Grandi  14
3. Speaking to the Sacred  18
4. The Algorithm of Love  22
5. De Sidere 7 with Nicolás Grandi  23
6. Intimate Stranger  30
7. Tantra and the Body  31
8. To Bend into the Wind  34
9. Love Is Not a State of Exception  39
10. California Poppy  42
11. “A Glorious Thing Made Up of Stardust”: What Pat Parker and Rohith
Vemula Ask Us to Consider  43
12. Benediction  48
13. Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than You Think: Beyond the Rhetoric of
Otherness  49
14. Words Fall into Empty Mind with Nicolás Grandi  54
15. Does the Mind Have a Heart?  55
16. Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones . . . but Words? On Social Justice
Rhetoric  58
17. “What I Noticed Most Was That I Had Become a Poet”: Renewing the
Language of Politics  63
18. Continual Evolution  68
19. Am I Doing Enough? Crisis, Activism, and the Search for Meaning  69
20. The Tantra of Action  73
21. “We Inter Are”: Identity Politics and #MeToo  77
22. A Malleable Border Teeming with Life  84
Afterword  87
Dark Goddess  96
Out of the One Many  94
In Silence the Mind Breathes with Nicolás Grandi  97
References  99
Index