Risky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy: Reflections on Sexuality. Media. Science. Finance

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Risky Bodies & Techno-Intimacy traverses the technologically mediated intimacies that people fashion as they grapple with the radical uncertainties that inhabit their lives. 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. Patel is poetic, edgy, brutal, and compassionate...

Geeta Patel

Geeta Patel is the Director of UVA in India and an Associate Professor at the University of Virginia. She has published widely on the collusive conundrums posed by bringing finance, science, sexuality and aesthetics together. She has also translated lyric and prose from Sanskrit, Urdu, Hindi and Braj, and is the author of the acclaimed, Lyrical Movements, Historical Hauntings: On Gender, Colonialism and Desire in Miraji’s Urdu Poetry. She is co-editor of two journal issues that engage several of her areas of expertise: “Area Impossible” for GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (2016), with Anjali Arondekar; and “Trust and Islamic Capital” for Society and Business Review (2016-2017) with Rula Al-Abdulrazak.