Mani Myriad Intimacies

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2288-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 118 Seiten

Lata Mani oscillates between poetry and prose, genre and form, register and voice, and secular and sacred to meditate on the ways in which everyone and everything exists in mutually constitutive interrelations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mani, Lata

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.