The Nearness of Others: Searching for Tact and Contact in the Age of HIV

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Notes 323 Notes Footnotes          6    This quotation is from Adam Mars-­ Jones’s introduction to his volume of short stories about AIDS titled Monopolies of Loss, 2. RBonTB          7    The photograph and caption appear in Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes, 30. DepressedThinking          18    On melancholia as social phenomenon and a kind of thought in its own right, see Lepenies, Melancholy and Society; Kristeva, Soleil noir; and Chambers, Mélancolie et opposition. MakingSense         19    All quotations are from Feinberg, Eighty-­Sixed, 183. HowCanPlainCuriosityBeUnkind?         29    Kureishi, My Ear at His Heart, 94. SpeakingofHIV          36    The long quotation is from the beginning of Hervé Guibert’s first book dealing with his illness, To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, 6. ToughasNailPolish          40 For a typical example of how early AIDS activists and critics advocated an embrace, rather than rejection, of gay collective values, see Douglas Crimp,“How to Have Promiscuity in an Epidemic.” For a more recent argument about the positive uses of camp in the face of the epidemic, see chapter 5 of Kane Race’s book Pleasure Consuming Medicine. 324 Notes FromHervéGuibert’sHospitalDiary(I)         43    All these quotations are from Guibert, Cytomégalovirus, and the translations are mine. “I will ask”: 14; “Hospital is hell”: 20; “You have to demand respect”: 29;“Allow me, Madam”: 41–­42;“To turn psychological torture”: 54;“This morning”: 57;“You will have to wait”: 58;“I was martyred for peanuts”: 63. HospitalVisits          46     The book I envy was written by Mark Cichocki, and it’s called Living with HIV. While I’m at it, I should thank Mark for being such a great nurse. FromHervéGuibert’sHospitalDiary(II)         47     Again, from Guibert, Cytomégalovirus, 68. NearnessandNeighborliness         61    Delbo’s epigraph is from Auschwitz and After, 1.         62     I discuss neighborhoods in my book My Father and I. BeckoningandAppealing         64     Barthes’s discussion of the photography is in Camera Lucida. IncompleteStrangers          67     My thinking about the intimation and intimacy, here and later in the book, is indebted to long discussions with Juli Highfill, usually over dinner and drinks. Many thanks. GroundZero         68     The quotation is from the Plume edition, 22. NakedArabBodies         72     The quotation by Jean-­ Luc Nancy comes from La pensée dérobée, 13 (my translation).         73     Puar, Terrorist Assemblages, 110–­11.         73     Riz noir, by Anna Moï,is quoted from the Folio edition of the book,27. TruthandTorture         78     Scarry, Body in Pain, 29.         79     I translated the excerpt from Bizot’s book, Le silence du bourreau, 46. For stylistic reasons, I decided to keep the masculine pronouns of the original French. Notes 325 DiningwithFrenchPeople         80 See Scott, Politics of the Veil, and Bowen, Why the French Don’t Like Headscarves.           82   Rancière’s discussion of the police vs. equality appears in The Shores of Politics.            83    The discussion of visibility and its problems draws on Foucault’s History of Sexuality, vol. 1.            85     “Muslims are now in a similar position”: Scott, Politics of the Veil, 117.         86 Diprose, Corporeal Generosity, 61. EncounteringtheStrange            87    See Davidson, Only Muslim. TimesSquareLost            90    Kureishi’s remark comes from his novel Something to Tell You, 99. FromPublicSchoolstoPublicPools           93   For this tidbit about Denmark, I thank Peter Edelberg. ParticularBodies               94–95    Jullien, Impossible Nude. The ideas I discuss here are found throughout Jullien’s essay, but the passages I quote are on page 111. OneDropofBlood         103  About the oil spill story, see Saulny,“Cajuns on Gulf Worry They May Need to Move On Once Again.”        104   See Wiltse, Contested Waters.          105    On the question of risk and how it differs from danger,see in particular Deborah Lupton’s Risk and, in the specific context of HIV and AIDS, Halperin’s What Do Gay Men Want?        106 For the Louganis quotation, Breaking the Surface, xiii. ShameandExperience        109   Bersani and Phillips, Intimacies, 33. TheDoorstepofShame        110   Ernaux, Shame:“I rushed into the store”: 93. ForgetYourHealth       111, 113 Diprose, Corporeal Generosity:“But memory and forgetting”: 157;“generosity is the passivity of exposure” and “Before the rational community ”: 168. 326 Notes Obama’sDisclosures,ForeverDeferred        115     “When he says he’s a Christian”: Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell and Speaker of the House John Boehner have both said that, and many others have made similar comments. AdventuresinOnlineCruising                   119     “The obligation to confess”: The History of Sexuality, 1:60.                 120     Heartfelt thanks to Trevor Hoppe for sharing his work and unsurpassable expertise on HIV criminalization. His data on...