INDEX

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. INTRODUCTION Cognitive Work, Cognitive Bodies 1
5. I • ENCODING RACE
6. ONE. IMAGINING THE INDIAN IT BODY 27
7. TWO. THE POSTRACIAL OFFICE 54
8. THREE. PROPRIETARY FREEDOMS IN AN IT OFFICE 86
9. II • ENCODING CLASS
10. FOUR. THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT AND THE SPIRIT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP A History of the Computer in India 109
11. FIVE. COMPUTERS ARE VERY STUPID COOKS Reinventing Leisure as a Politics of Pleasure 137
12. SIX. THE TRAVELING DIAPER BAG Gifts and Jokes as Materializing Immaterial Labor 164
13. A SPECULATIVE CONCLUSION Secrets and Lives 185
14. NOTES 203
15. BIBLIOGRAPHY 231
16. INDEX 253