Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality

“intimacy gives us a different way of seeing.”

it has emerged as a central cultural logic, encompassing realms such as “sharing economies” and sharing emotions in intimate relationships.

Digital hyperconnectivity — the condition in which nearly everyone and everything is connected to everyone and everything else, everywhere and all the time — has colonized the self, recast social interactions, reorganized the public sphere, revolutionized economic life and converted the whole of human culture into an unending stream of digital con