By Shaka McGlotten
Uses ethnography and cultural research to trace scenes of intimate connection and disconnection between homosexual males throughout an array of media sites.
Virtual Intimacies tells the tales of homosexual males, together with the writer, who navigate social worlds during which the bounds among actual and digital were completely confounded. Shaka McGlotten analyzes intimate connection and disconnection throughout an array of media websites, together with mass mediated public intercourse scandals, on-line areas, home made porn, and phone apps on the way to exhibit the usual methods humans problem and remodel sexuality and know-how. The e-book frames “virtual intimacy” when it comes to the mocking disapproval that appears at utilizing know-how to attach as anything shameful or as a way of final hotel. besides the fact that, the place many see a lifeless finish, Virtual Intimacies argues on behalf of extra broad understandings of intimacy, thereby contributing to many feminist and queer techniques that search to extend the scope of what counts as connection, belonging, or love. the writer additionally highlights the artistic and resilient ways in which queer humans construct social worlds utilizing areas and applied sciences in methods they weren't intended.
“This paintings is an unique and finely crafted contribution, from an immense new voice. Incisively examining personal/political longings and laying naked elements of the author’s personal lifeworlds, the following, Shaka McGlotten bargains a detailed and compelling (auto)ethnographic account of what it's we glance for once we login, cruise (by), consider, and glance ahead. Chronicling how we are living lives of either virtuality and embodiment today—working, taking part in, needing, wasting, and dying—McGlotten’s paintings is likely one of the better of what's new in ethnographic writing.” — Jafari S. Allen, author of ¡Venceremos? The Erotics of Black Self-making in Cuba
“While the ebook bargains with a variety of themes from on-line video games to black identification politics, cruising grounds, and avant-garde porn, it additionally weaves them jointly through a theoretical argument and a valid writer’s voice.” — Katrien Jacobs, writer of People’s Pornography: intercourse and Surveillance at the chinese language Internet
“Virtual Intimacies is a smart ebook, breathtaking in its aesthetic, ethnographic, and attuned realization to the a number of mediations of an affectively connected existence. our bodies and play, hope and violence, outreach and evasion, depth and diffusion: the modern global of digital embodiment is all right here, and as a instructor and person parsing the area i'm so thankful to have learn this.” — Lauren Berlant, writer of Cruel Optimism and Desire/Love
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What does that mean? Palumbo: Did I ask? I don’t remember though. Hansen: Are you top or bottom? Hansen: I’m horny, you said. The Vir tual Life of Sex in Public / 37 Palumbo: I was just fooling around. Hansen: Well, if you’re just fooling around, why were you so concerned about knowing whether or not he was a cop? Palumbo: Just joking. 18 On TCAP, viewers can experience the pleasure of taboo desires while shielding themselves from the scope or consequences of their own nascent predatory feelings.
He’s worried something worse could happen. 10 The implication is clear: the boundaries of the sex public cre‑ ated by the men in the parks risks moving out of the underbrush and potentially incorporating new and even more inappropriate objects of desire. Children who were supposed to commune with Austin’s natural beauty may be unwillingly pulled into a sexual jungle of bent desire. This threat is, of course, virtual, triggering anger at the usurpa‑ tion of public space and anxiety about the safety of children.
All three bought into the publicly circulated (and produced) notion that some forms of intimacy are better than others and that particular forms of sexual contact are practiced by people who are either gay or straight, but not both or neither. The correspondence between their statements and actions and the desires of the witnessing public, however, are not entirely commensurate. The public, of which I am undoubtedly a part, wants more than witnessing or condemnation allows. Our repulsion to these stories is matched if not overwhelmed by our desire to get even closer.