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UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON PRESS Risky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy by Geeta Patel
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. 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 Amok3. 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