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Cruising Dystopia: The Messy Optimism of Digital Connection in Shaka McGlotten’s Virtual Intimacies

Cruising Dystopia: The Messy Optimism of Digital Connection in Shaka McGlotten’s Virtual... Cruising Dystopia The Messy Optimism of Digital Connection in Shaka McGlotten’s Virtual Intimacies bonnie ruberg A review of Shaka McGlotten, Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2013). Cited in the text as vi. Not a moment too soon, scholarly work on queer sexuality in digital cultures has begun bridging the gap between two vibrant contemporary fi elds that converse with surprising infrequency— sexuality studies and media studies. At a time when discussions of queerness have become so pervasive that scholars fi nd themselves facing the question “Is everything queer?,” it can seem that queer theory has already succeeded in leaving no stone unturned. At the same time, when the digital humanities claim to be revolutioniz- ing scholarship by replacing qualitative thinking with color- coded charts, it’s easy to fear that close readings of culture have become a thing of the pre- big- data past. With some notable exceptions, writing on high- tech media like video games has shied away from the controversial territory of sexuality. Meanwhile, queer theory, with some of its own notable exceptions, has taken pains to side- step the “lower” arts and the hubbub of the Internet, too http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social Sciences University of Nebraska Press

Cruising Dystopia: The Messy Optimism of Digital Connection in Shaka McGlotten’s Virtual Intimacies

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University of Nebraska Press
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Abstract

Cruising Dystopia The Messy Optimism of Digital Connection in Shaka McGlotten’s Virtual Intimacies bonnie ruberg A review of Shaka McGlotten, Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2013). Cited in the text as vi. Not a moment too soon, scholarly work on queer sexuality in digital cultures has begun bridging the gap between two vibrant contemporary fi elds that converse with surprising infrequency— sexuality studies and media studies. At a time when discussions of queerness have become so pervasive that scholars fi nd themselves facing the question “Is everything queer?,” it can seem that queer theory has already succeeded in leaving no stone unturned. At the same time, when the digital humanities claim to be revolutioniz- ing scholarship by replacing qualitative thinking with color- coded charts, it’s easy to fear that close readings of culture have become a thing of the pre- big- data past. With some notable exceptions, writing on high- tech media like video games has shied away from the controversial territory of sexuality. Meanwhile, queer theory, with some of its own notable exceptions, has taken pains to side- step the “lower” arts and the hubbub of the Internet, too

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Qui Parle: Critical Humanities and Social SciencesUniversity of Nebraska Press

Published: Oct 9, 2014

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