Geeta Patel

Risky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy (eBook, ePUB)

Reflections on Sexuality, Media, Science, Finance

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 engagementsincluding the political economies of cinema; the emergent shapes taken by insurance, debt, and mortgages; gender and sexuality; and domesticity and nationalismGeeta 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Seitenzahl: 385
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780295742502
• Artikelnr.: 50028278

Autorenporträt

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.