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