Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality

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165 Index affect, 4, 17, 21, 36, 45, 63, 66, 81, 104; and blackness, 65–66, 76–77; definitions of, 8–9, 11, 64; and image, 118; and immaterial labor, 127; and virtuality, 1, 8, 9, 11, 12, 62, 81. See also immanence; intimacy; virtual Adam4Adam, 70, 73, 75 addiction, 3, 32, 54, 55, 62, 114 African American. See black Ahmed, Sara, 67 AIDS. See HIV/AIDS Allison, Anne, 56, 142n7, 143n21 All Things Considered, 86, 99 Alone Together (Turkle), 124 Amazons of Kalimdor, The, 52–53 ambivalence: and eroticism, 12, 13, 21, 27, 85, 117; and identity, 11, 68, 149; racial, 61, 69, 70 Anderson, Ben, 74 anti-porn feminism, 106, 107, 153– 154n16. See also pornography anxiety: definitions of, 13, 66–67, 146n24; and gameplay, 57, 59; and Grindr, 130; and public sex, 29; racial, 66–71. See also racial paranoia antiblack racism, 66, 70, 73, 72, 74, 132–133 Appropriating Blackness (Johnson), 65 Ashcroft v. the ACLU, 93 Austin, Texas, 3, 4, 12, 17, 24, 27– 29; and public sex, 20, 23–31 Austin American Statesman, 28–29 Bataille, Georges, 18 Bazzichelli, Tatiana, 108, 121. See also CUM2CUT Bergson, Henri, 64, 102, 103, 122. See also élan vital Berlant, Lauren, 15, 139n2. See also intimacy: definitions of Berry, Justin, 13, 79–81, 83–87, 89– 91, 94, 97–100; and the Child, 81, 91, 98; sexuality of, 90, 149n17. See also Child, the black: affect, 63–66; anxiety, 67–70; authenticity, 65; gayness, 67, 69, 79; kinship, 22; optimism, 74–77; paranoia, 71–73; suffering and definitions of, 66. See also antiblack racism; racial paranoia Black Spark, The, 112–118, 121 Bright, Susie, 85, 89, 149n17 166 / I n d e x Boellstorf, Tom, 46 Bolter, Jay, 130 Bryanterry, 109–112, 117 Bull Creek Park, 28, 29 Cadinot, Jean Daniel, 106 Cam4, 101 carnality, 1, 2, 9, 21, 26–27, 38, 123. See also intimacy Chauncey, George, 137n3 Chester French, 113, 115 child pornography, 79–80, 83–94, 97–99, 148n6, 153n15. See also Internet; pornography Child, the, 13, 80–83, 91–92, 97–98, 99. See also Edelman, Lee; reproductive futurism Child Online Protection Act (COPA), 93–94, 152n38 Child Pornography Prevention Act (CPPA), 93, 152n38 Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), 93–94 Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), 92–93, 152n38 Cinema West, 24, 25 communicative capitalism, 10, 11 Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee (CICAC), 95 convergence culture, 14, 104 Coté, Mark, 127 Counterpunch, 86 Craig, Larry, 31–33 Creative Evolution (Bergson), 103 cruel optimism, 96, 100 cruising, 4, 5, 6, 17, 19, 24, 61, 70, 73; and Grindr, 124–130, 133–134 CUM2CUT, 108, 118–119, 121– 122 cyberspace, 2–3, 63, 93, 137n7 Dada, 121 Dean, Jodi, 10 Delany, Samuel, 4 Deleuze, Gilles, 1, 8, 60, 64; and Guattari, 8; virtuality, 8, 39. See also virtual Donovan, Gregory, 93, 151n38 Douchebags of Grindr, 128–135 Dudesnude.com, 70 Edelman, Lee, 82–83, 91, 99–100 Eichenwald, Kurt, 79, 80, 81, 83–91, 97, 98–99, 149n17 élan vital, 14, 102–104, 122 emotion. See affect erotic innocence, 24, 80–81, 92, 96 failure: and intimacy, 7, 18, 19, 31, 32, 33, 36–37, 59; as generative, 75, 125; Judith Halberstam’s concept of, 75; and racism, 71; and online cruising, 128; and redemption, 80, 96–97; and queer desire, 9; and sex in public, 21, 23, 24, 27, 30, 34, 38; and virtuality, 2, 10, 27, 35, 37, 99, and World of Warcraft, 47, 48, 53, 58 feelings. See affect Finkelhor, David, 90, 95–96, 151n34 Fisher, Phillip, 64 Fluxus, 121 Foley, Mark, 31–34, 141n16 Freud, Sigmund, 67, 71, 146n24 The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It (Zittrain), 137n7 futurity, 60, 99 Galloway, Alexander, 5–6 gaming, 7, 39, 46, 55; See also World of Warcraft Gay.com, 3, 56, 61, 129 Index / 167 gender, 2, 63, 67, 106, 118, 120, 121; and hegemonic masculinity 30, 33, 106, 114, 132, 133; and World of Warcraft, 44, 46 gift economies, 106, 108–109, 112 Gourlay, Ken, 90, 98 Gray, Mary, 130 Grindr, 61, 62, 67, 121, 124–135 Grusin, Richard, 130 guilds, 49–53, 143n12 hacking: pornography, 118–121, 155n37 Halberstam, Judith, 75, 141n19 Haggard, Ted, 31–33 Harper, Phillip Brian, 72 Heidegger, Martin, 66 heteronormativity, 4, 17, 21, 82 HIV/AIDS, 4, 19, 20, 67, 153n12 homonormativity, 10–11, 82, 129 homonationalism, 10–11, 139n26...