TY  - BOOK
AU  - Geeta Patel
TI  - RISKY BODIES AND TECHNO - INTIMACY:  Reflections on Sexuality. Media. Science. Finance
SN  - 9788188965946 (hardback)
U1  - 158.2 
PY  - 2016////01/01
CY  - Delhi
PB  - Women Unlimited
KW  - Intimacy (Psychology)
KW  - Techno- Intimacy
KW  - Intimacy (Psychology) in motion pictures
KW  - Technology -- Psychological aspects
KW  - SELF-HELP Personal Growth Happiness
KW  - SELF-HELP Personal Growth Success
KW  - India
KW  - Psychological aspects
N1  - Risky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy traverses the technologically mediated intimacies that people fashion as they grapple with the radical uncertainties that inhabit their lives. Elusive snarls and double binds dog the everyday. By working with materials salvaged from various genres of science, this provocative, cutting edge book charts uncommon routes through enigmatic stalemates: political economies of cinematic archives; domesticity; lyrical temporalities; aesthetic mobilisations; and emergent financial forms; Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-367) and index; Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; 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, cinematic realism, 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
ER  -