Lata Mani

The Integral Nature of Things

Critical Reflections on the Present

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses a revealing paradox: prevailing ways of thinking obscure the interrelations between things even as interdependence and indivisibility continually assert themselves. Mani traces the consequences in a number of sites - language, labour, technology, post-structuralist theory, political rhetoric, sex, advertising, neoliberal globa

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9781138148543
• ISBN-10: 1138148547
• Artikelnr.: 70113978

Autorenporträt

Lata Mani is a feminist historian and cultural critic.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction: One Day at Noon
The Aesthetics of Display
The Grass Cutter
Avenue Road Suite
Every Aspect a World unto Itself
The Tree
The Room
The Stationery Store
A Street is Not a Road
The Ideal of a Global City
The Market is Like That Because People are Like This
It Leaves You Wanting More
Intimacy
Root Vibration
Maverick Designs: On Diesel Jeans and Geoengineering
Beyond Antithesis
In Other Words: Beyond Antithesis, Take 2
For Althusser with Love
Reconjugating Law and Dharma
Sex
The Morning Light
Witnessing
On Repetition
Toward Digital Dispassion
The Phantom of Globality and the Delirium of Excess
Cognition and Devotion
Like the Wind
Interdependence
Reciprocal Flows
The Tree and I
In the Form of a Prayer: Reconsidering our Polemics
Azan
Human Dignity and Suffering: Some Considerations
Returning to Our Senses
Once Upon a Time in the Present
On Days Like This
Afterword
Glossary
About the Author.