Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality

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

uncomfortably close contact with deep cultural desires and anxieties about childhood that are simultaneously materially real (in media forms and cultural fantasies about the erotic innocence of children), concrete (in actual molestation, neglect, and abuse), and virtual (in profligate, immanent, latent speculations on the possibilities for intergen

own desirability and to one's own desire,

he recruited and paid at least one new minor to appear after he'd flipped for Eichenwald.

the ground for normative models of relationality.

I both retain and promiscuously mix these definitions.

For Halberstam, failure can productively perform as a refusal of mastery.

expertise and entrepreneurial interest in victimhood and exploitation

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.