The Gay Science: Intimate Experiments with the Problem of HIV / Edition 1

by Kane Race

Overview

This book pays attention to lived experiences of sex, drugs and the scientific practices that make these experiences intelligible. Through a series of empirically and historically detailed case studies, the book examines how new technologies and scientific artifacts mediate sexual encounters and shape the worlds and self-practices of gay men.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138683822
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/03/2017
Series:	Sexuality, Culture and Health
Pages:	206
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Kane Race is Associate Professor of Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the convenor of the Queer Contingent of Unharm and the author of Pleasure Consuming Medicine: the queer politics of drugs (2009).

Table of Contents

1. The Gay Science: intimate experiments with the problem of HIV
2. Queer Chemistry: gay partying and collective innovations in care
3. Click Here for HIV Status: sorting for sexual partners
4. Making Up Barebackers
5. Reluctant Objects: pre-exposure prophylaxis and negative sex
6. Framing Responsibility: accounting for objects, networks and events
7. Chemsex: a case for gay analysis
8. Speculative Intimacies: some less acknowledged possibilities of smart phone use
9. Conclusion: The Queer Chemistry of Counterpublic Health in Digital Times

Editorial Reviews

"The Gay Science is a gift. Working across art, economics, epidemiology, sociology, ethnography and critical theories of personhood and sexuality, Kane Race freshens up how we see the medical and sexual chemistry of contemporary gayness. Drugs and new media, parties and apps create new lifeworlds for sex and intimacy — managing them and revising the event of intimate encounters. Philosophically engaged and fun to read, The Gay Science feels out for ways to phrase queer sexuality's current transitional phase". — Lauren Berlant, George M. Pullman Distinguished Service Professor, The University of Chicago, USA

"In The Gay Science, Kane Race moves constantly, seamlessly, and elegantly back and forth between cutting-edge social theory and the new, intimate worlds of sex and drugs. His fine-tuned investigations of risks and pleasures reveal the intricate connections of biomedicine, criminal law, and new digital infrastructures in the forging of sexual practices and the regulation of sexual subjects. This fascinating and important book will ignite debate about the prospects for enacting what Race provocatively terms 'counterpublic health'." — Steven Epstein, Professor of Sociology and John C. Shaffer Professor in the Humanities, Northwestern University, USA

"The Gay Science is a gift. Working across art, economics, epidemiology, sociology, ethnography and critical theories of personhood and sexuality, Kane Race freshens up how we see the medical and sexual chemistry of contemporary gayness. Drugs and new media, parties and apps create new lifeworlds for sex and intimacy--managing them and revising the event of intimate encounters. Philosophically engaged and fun to read, The Gay Science feels out for ways to phrase queer sexuality's current transitional phase". Lauren Berlant, The University of Chicago

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