In Calcutta, Sex Workers Organize

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Foreword: What Affects Are Good For ix
5. Introduction 1
6. The Parched Tongue 34
7. Techno-Cinema: Image Matters in the Affective Unfoldings of Analog Cinema and New Media 47
8. Slowness: Notes toward an Economy of Différancial Rates of Being 77
9. Myocellular Transduction: When My Cells Trained My Body-Mind 106
10. Women’s Work and the Ambivalent Gift of Entropy 119
11. Voices from the Teum: Synesthetic Trauma and the Ghosts of the Korean Diaspora 151
12. In Calcutta, Sex Workers Organize 170
13. More Than a Job: Meaning, Affect, and Training Health Care Workers 187
14. Haunting Orpheus: Problems of Space and Time in the Desert 209
15. Always on Display: Affective Production in the Modeling Industry 231
16. The Wire 261
17. Losses and Returns: The Soldier in Trauma 264
18. Bibliography 287
19. Contributors 303
20. Index 305