Risky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy

Geeta Patel is associate professor of both Middle Eastern and South Asian languages and cultures and of women, gender, and sexuality at the University of Virginia. She is author of Lyrical Movements, Historical Hauntings: Gender, Colonialism, and Desire in Miraji’s Urdu Poetry.

• 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