The Integral Nature of Things

Critical Reflections on the Present

Lata Mani

• Publisher: Routledge India
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9781000084498
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Philosophy
• Subtopic: Social Philosophy

The world is an interdependent whole of which everything is an integral, complexly related, part. Yet current ways of thinking, and being, persistently separate social phenomena and the individual self from the multiple dimensions with which they are interconnected. The Integral Nature of Things examines this revealing paradox and its consequences in a variety of sites: everyday language, labour, advertising, technology, post-structuralist theory, political rhetoric, urban planning, sex, neoliberal globalisation. Mani demonstrates how even though the interrelations between things are obscured by the ruling paradigm, the facts of relationality and indivisibility continually assert themselves. The book interweaves prose with poetry and sociocultural analysis with observational accounts to offer an alternative framework for addressing aspects of the cognitive, cultural, political, and ethical crisis we face today.

CONTENTS

1. Acknowledgements
2. Introduction: One Day at Noon
3. The Aesthetics of Display
4. The Grass Cutter
5. Avenue Road Suite
   1. Every Aspect a World unto Itself
   2. The Tree
   3. The Room
   4. The Stationery Store
   5. A Street is Not a Road
   6. The Ideal of a Global City
6. The Market is Like That Because People are Like This
7. It Leaves You Wanting More
8. Intimacy
9. Root Vibration
10. Maverick Designs: On Diesel Jeans and Geoengineering
11. Beyond Antithesis
12. In Other Words: Beyond Antithesis, Take 2
13. For Althusser with Love
14. Reconjugating Law and Dharma
15. Sex
16. The Morning Light
17. Witnessing
18. On Repetition
19. Toward Digital Dispassion
20. The Phantom of Globality and the Delirium of Excess
21. Cognition and Devotion
22. Like the Wind
23. Interdependence
24. Reciprocal Flows
25. The Tree and I
26. In the Form of a Prayer: Reconsidering our Polemics
27. Azan
28. Human Dignity and Suffering: Some Considerations
29. Returning to Our Senses
30. Once Upon a Time in the Present
31. On Days Like This
32. Afterword
33. Glossary
34. About the Author

1. Cover
2. Half Title
3. Title Page
4. Copyright Page
5. Contents
6. Acknowledgements
7. Introduction: One Day at Noon
8. The Aesthetics of Display
9. The Grass Cutter
10. Avenue Road Suite
    1. Every Aspect a World unto Itself
    2. The Tree
    3. The Room
    4. The Stationery Store
    5. A Street is Not a Road
    6. The Ideal of a Global City
11. The Market is Like That Because People are Like This
12. It Leaves You Wanting More
13. Intimacy
14. Root Vibration
15. Maverick Designs: On Diesel Jeans and Geoengineerin...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: One Day at Noon
• The Aesthetics of Display
• The Grass Cutter
• Avenue Road Suite
• 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