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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 engagements-including the political economies of cinema; the emergent shapes taken by insurance, debt, and mortgages; gender and sexuality; and domesticity and nationalism-Geeta 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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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)
