Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality

It is the immanence, the force of potential, of some thing that is not knowable in advance, that is key to the enjoyment of browsing.

Browsing is optimistically open to the chance of success, without settling on what success might look or feel like.

Browsing is something you do to enjoy being in the flow of desire rather than trying to satiate it.

is it an expression of queer anti-sociality, more evidence that “communities” are not communitarian?

Browsing is an embodied, durational practice that belongs to an alternative logic of consumption that emphasizes the pleasure of looking rather than the pleasure of having or getting.

the body's remediation,

trolling Grindr is easier than using it to hook up. Or rather, it operates as a kind of supplemental practice: cruising for sexual partners, one also cruises for something else.

help to constitute other kinds of publics

reflects the generativity of cultural forms;