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Risky bodies & techno-intimacy : reflections on sexuality, media, science, finance /

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 insur...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Patel, Geeta (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, 2017
Series:Feminist technosciences
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: paths to inquiry, pathways for the inquisitive
  • Techno-homo: translating mayonnaise at home
  • Heisenberg's bodies: Ismat Chughtai in a marital fix, or homely housewives run amok
  • Firing time: techno-intimacies of the cinematic
  • Time's travails
  • Memorial figurations: temporality, cinematic realism, and finance
  • Risky bodies: life-finance, labour and domesticated technologies of intimacy
  • Prelude after the fact: photographic techno-intimacies and the question of method