Myriad Intimacies
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Myriad Intimacies

  1. English
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Myriad Intimacies

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Videos
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. In your hands this book
  6. Introduction. Integral Entanglements, Formal Experiments
  7. One. The covid-19 Pandemic: A Tantric Invitation to Humanity
  8. Two. The Nocturnes with NicolĂĄs Grandi
  9. Three. Speaking to the Sacred
  10. Four. The Algorithm of Love
  11. Five. De Sidere 7 with NicolĂĄs Grandi
  12. Six. Intimate Stranger
  13. Seven. Tantra and the Body
  14. Eight. To Bend into the Wind
  15. Nine. Love Is Not a State of Exception
  16. Ten. California Poppy
  17. Eleven. “A Glorious Thing Made Up of Stardust”: What Pat Parker and Rohith Vemula Ask Us to Consider
  18. Twelve. Benediction
  19. Thirteen. Objects in the Mirror Are Closer Than You Think: Beyond the Rhetoric of Otherness
  20. Fourteen. Words Fall into Empty Mind with NicolĂĄs Grandi
  21. Fifteen. Does the Mind Have a Heart?
  22. Sixteen. Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones . . . but Words? On Social Justice Rhetoric
  23. Seventeen. “What I Noticed Most Was That I Had Become a Poet”: Renewing the Language of Politics
  24. Eighteen. Continual Evolution
  25. Nineteen. Am I Doing Enough? Crisis, Activism, and the Search for Meaning
  26. Twenty. The Tantra of Action
  27. Twenty-One. “We Inter Are”: Identity Politics and #MeToo
  28. Twenty-Two. A Malleable Border Teeming with Life
  29. Afterword
  30. Out of the One Many
  31. Dark Goddess
  32. In Silence the Mind Breathes with NicolĂĄs Grandi
  33. References