Myriad intimacies / Lata Mani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mani, Lata, 1956- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and culture.

Tantrism.

Ontology.

Social justice.

Criticism--Political aspects.

Social Justice.

ontology (metaphysics).

Medical Subjects:

Social Justice.

Physical Description:

xii, 104 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The COVID-19 pandemic : a tantric invitation to humanity

The nocturnes with Nicolás Grandi

Speaking to the sacred

The algorithm of love

De Sidere 7 videocontemplation with Nicolás Grandi

Intimate stranger

Tantra and the body

To bend into the wind

Love is not a state of exception

California poppy

"A glorious thing made up of stardust" : What Pat Parker and Rohith Vemula ask us to consider

Benediction

Objects in the mirror are closer than you think : beyond the rhetoric of otherness

Words fall into empty mind, with Nicolás Grandi

Does the mind have a heart?

Sticks and stones may break my bones . . . but words? On social justice rhetoric

"What I noticed most was that I had become a poet" : renewing the language of politics

Continual evolution

Am I doing enough? Crisis, activism, and the search for meaning

The tantra of action

"We inter are" : identity politics and #MeToo

A malleable border teeming with life.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Mani, Lata, 1956- Myriad intimacies.

ISBN:

9781478015659

1478015659

9781478018278

1478018275

OCLC:

1260291828