ways it produces or enforces feelings of closeness and distance. So what's challenging about this form of intimacy as belonging is that it involves pushing against the conception that one is self-sufficient.

Others' intimate failures rapturously sweep us away into whole virtual worlds of desire.

solo play figures as central in narratives of gamers gone wild.

establishing an equivalence between virtuality, failure, and queerness.

centrally concerned with sex and the ways it supports or disorganizes coupled and communal intimacies.

anxiety of anticipation;

They are attuned to the politics and potentialities of queer sociability

treats as quantifiable and repeatable what is really continuous qualitative change.

of abuse and addiction: