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Join researcher João Florêncio for a conversation about beds, mobile phones, and other technologies in gay networks of intimacy, examining how they blur distinctions between private and public.

João Florêncio is Senior Lecturer in History of Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter. A queer cultural theorist of the body, his interdisciplinary research focuses on visual cultures of sexuality, health and illness in relation to wider Western biopolitical, philosophical and technoscientific histories. He is the author of Bareback Porn, Porous Masculinities, Queer Futures: The Ethics of Becoming-Pig (Routledge, 2020). More about João Florêncio

Images:

1. Oink. Courtesy of João Florêncio

2. Oink 2. Courtesy of João Florêncio

3. Portrait João Florêncio. Courtesy of the portrayed.