Geeta Patel

Risky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy (eBook, ePUB)

Reflections on Sexuality, Media, Science, Finance

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Risky Bodies and Techno-Intimacy traverses disparate and uncommon routes to explore how people grapple with the radical uncertainties of their lives. In this edgy, evocative journey through myriad interleaved engagementsincluding the political economies of cinema; the emergent shapes taken by insurance, debt, and mortgages; gender and sexuality; and domesticity and nationalismGeeta Patel demonstrates how science and technology ground our everyday intimacies. The result is a deeply poetic and philosophical exploration of the intricacies of techno-intimacy, revealing a complicated and absorbing narrative that challenges assumptions underlying our daily living.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 385
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780295742502
• Artikelnr.: 50028278

Autorenporträt

Geeta Patel is associate professor of Middle Eastern & South Asian languages & cultures and women, gender & sexuality at the University of Virginia. Her previous publications include Lyrical Movements, Historical Hauntings: Gender, Colonialism and Desire in Miraji's Urdu Poetry (Stanford University Press, 2002) and Risky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy: Reflections on Sexuality, Media, Science, Finance (Women Unlimited/University of Washington Press, 2017)

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction Paths to Inquiry, Pathways for the Inquisitive
1. Techno-homo: Translating Mayonnaise at Home
2. Heisenberg's Bodies: Ismat Chughtai in a Marital Fix, or Homely
Housewives Run Amok
3. Firing Time: Techno-Intimacies of the Cinematic
4. Time's Travails
5. Memorial Figurations: Temporality, Cinematicrealism, and Finance
6. Risky Bodies: Life-Finance, Labour and Domesticated Technologies of
Intimacy
Prelude after the Fact: Photographic Techno-Intimacies and the Question Of
Method
Bibliography
Index