Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality

how might these feelings advance understandings of the relevance of black affects to social life for black folks and others?

this right form of intimacy is itself perversely the image of the couple or the family witnessing the program,

unlike fear, it has no object.

Austin's sex publics are both concrete and overlaid with a dense affective geography. That is, even actual spaces, such as parks and public bathrooms, are deeply tied to the past, to memories, and longing.

networks tend to produce or reflect order or disorder.

There's work involved in maintaining a profile, even a profile that refuses to perform the work of profiles.

Hookup sites and cruising apps reduce social worlds of public sex to bad faith erotic free markets;

continues to make available transformative contacts and encounters, as well as precipitating a more expansive theoretical and political imagination.

audience, and the producers of the program are all brought into contact with one another, mirroring one another's longings for illicit sex, punitive retribution, and intimacy's failure.