4. Time’s Travails

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction: paths to inquiry, pathways for the inquisitive 1
5. 1. Techno-homo: translating mayonnaise at home 65
6. 2. Heisenberg’s Bodies: Ismat Chughtai in a marital fix, or homely housewives run amok 94
7. 3. Firing Time: techno-intimacies of the cinematic 130
8. 4. Time’s Travails 196
9. 5. Memorial Figurations: temporality, cinematic realism, and finance 237
10. 6. Risky Bodies: life-finance, labour and domesticated technologies of intimacy 277
11. Prelude after the Fact: photographic techno- intimacies and the question of method 339
12. Bibliography 353
13. Index 368