The Gay Scientist: Kane Race on the unexpected possibilities of experimental intimacies

Hakim, Jamie and Race, Kane (2023) The Gay Scientist: Kane Race on the unexpected possibilities of experimental intimacies. Sexualities, 26 (5-6). pp. 574-584. ISSN 1363-4607

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Abstract

In this interview with Jamie Hakim, Kane Race talks about his most recent monograph The Gay Science: Intimate Experiments With the Problem of HIV (2018). In The Gay Science, he explores how practices of sex and intimacy between gay men are shifting amidst what he calls the changing infrastructures of gay life – digital, chemical and communal. As such the book is empirically oriented and looks at a wide range of topics from hook-up apps, to PreP to chemsex/party ‘n’ play, to the history and politics of Sydney’s Mardi Gras as they take place on the ground. Theoretically he blends the thought of philosophers such as Michel Foucault and Friedrich Nietzche with critical perspectives such as actor-network theory and Science and Technology Studies to argue that as scholars of sexual practice we need to pay more attention to what emerges within the contingencies of the assemblages and infrastructures that make sex between gay men possible. In so doing, the book is far more optimistic about gay sex and digital media then either popular media or influential strands of queer theory, offering path-breaking insight into the major concerns of this special issue on Chemsex Cultures.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	chemsex,digital media,gay culture,hook-up apps,sexuality,gender studies,anthropology,sdg 3 - good health and well-being ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3318
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Art, Media and American Studies
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Film, Television and Media
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Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	02 May 2020 00:00
Last Modified:	28 Sep 2023 09:30
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/74951
DOI:	10.1177/1363460720932392

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