The Integral Nature of Things: Critical Reflections on the Present

ISBN-13: 9781138148543 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 252 str.

Lata Mani

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements -- Introduction: One Day at Noon -- The Aesthetics of Display -- The Grass Cutter -- Avenue Road Suite -- Every Aspect a World unto Itself -- The Tree -- The Room -- The Stationery Store -- A Street is Not a Road -- The Ideal of a Global City -- 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.

O autorze

Lata Mani is a feminist historian and cultural critic.