Barebacking in Restaurants and Other Fantasies of the Virosphere

See Simon Watney, Policing Desire: Pornography, AIDS and the Media (Methuen, 1987); and Leo Bersani, “Is the Rectum a Grave?” October, no. 43 (1987): 197–222.

See Jacqueline Rose, States of Fantasy (Clarendon Press, 1998); and Slavoj Zizek, The Plague of Fantasies (Verso, 1997).

Tim Dean, Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking (University of Chicago Press, 2009).

Treasure Island Media, the San Francisco–based porn company most closely associated with bareback subculture, originally represented its product as a documentary form.

See Tim Dean, “Breeding Culture: Barebacking, Bugchasing, Giftgiving,” Massachusetts Review 49, no. 1–2 (2008): 80–94.

See Tim Dean, “Mediated Intimacies: Raw Sex, Truvada, and the Biopolitics of Chemophrophylaxis,” Sexualities 18, no. 1–2 (2015): 224–246; and Raw: PrEP, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Barebacking, ed. Ricky Varghese (University of Regina Press, 2019).

Apoorva Mandavilli, “The US May Be Losing the Fight Against Monkeypox, Scientists Say,” New York Times, July 8, 2022 →.

See Douglas Crimp, “How to Have Promiscuity in an Epidemic,” October, no. 43 (1987): 237–71.

Zeynep Tufekci, “Why Did It Take So Long to Accept the Facts About Covid?” New York Times, May 7, 2021 →; and Trisha Greenhalgh et al., “Ten Scientific Reasons in Support of Airborne Transmission of SARS-CoV-2,” The Lancet, no. 397 (May 1, 2021): 1603–5.

Tufekci, “Why Did It Take So Long?”

Jacques Lacan, “The Subversion of the Subject and the Dialectic of Desire in the Freudian Unconscious,” Écrits: The First Complete Edition in English, trans. Bruce Fink (Norton, 2006), 692.

Peter Sloterdijk, Spheres, vol. 2: Globes, trans. Wieland Hoban (Semiotexte, 2014), 967.

Ibram X. Kendi, “We Still Don’t Know Who the Coronavirus’s Victims Were,” The Atlantic, May 2, 2021 →.

Alexis Pauline Gumbs, “Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals: Why We Need to Learn to Listen, Breathe and Remember, across Species, across Extinctions and across Harm,” Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture, no. 78 (2021): 21.

See Sara DiCaglio, “Breathing in a Pandemic: Covid-19’s Atmospheric Erasures,” Configurations 29, no. 4 (2021): 375–87.

Michel Foucault, “Society Must Be Defended”: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975–1976, ed. Mauro Bertani and Alessandro Fontana, trans. David Macey (Picador, 2003), 241.

See Antoine S. Johnson, “From HIV-AIDS to Covid-19: Black Vulnerability and Medical Uncertainty,” African American Intellectual History Society, June 15, 2020 →.

Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Breathing: Chaos and Poetry (Semiotexte, 2018), 15.

Jean-Thomas Tremblay, “Feminist Breathing,” Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 30, no. 3 (2019): 92–117; and Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals (AK Press, 2020).

Gumbs, “Undrowned,” 20.

Gumbs, “Undrowned,” 24.

See Jean-Thomas Tremblay, Breathing Aesthetics (Duke University Press, 2022).

Jennifer Scappettone, “Precarity Shared: Breathing as Tactic in Air’s Uneven Commons,” in Poetics and Precarity, ed. Myung Mi Kim and Cristanne Miller (State University of New York Press, 2018), 47.

Dana Willner et al., “Metagenomic Analysis of Respiratory Tract DNA Viral Communities in Cystic Fibrosis and Non-Cystic Fibrosis Individuals,” PLoS ONE 4, no. 10 (2009) →.

Rodrigo A. L. Rodrigues et al., “An Anthropocentric View of the Virosphere-Host Relationship,” Frontiers in Microbiology, no. 8 (August 2017): 1673.

Roberto Esposito, Bios: Biopolitics and Philosophy, trans. Timothy Campbell (University of Minnesota Press, 2008); and Esposito, Immunitas: The Protection and Negation of Life, trans. Zakiya Hanafi (Polity Press, 2011).

Ed Cohen, A Body Worth Defending: Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body (Duke University Press, 2009).

Eben Kirksey, “Virology,” in Unknown Unknowns: An Introduction to Mysteries, ed. Emanuele Coccia (Triennale Milano XXIII International Exhibition Catalogue, 2022), 186.

Rodrigues et al., “An Anthropocentric View,” 1.

Heather Paxson, “Post-Pasteurian Cultures: The Microbiopolitics of Raw-Milk Cheese in the United States,” Cultural Anthropology 23, no. 1 (2008): 16.

Charlotte Brives, “From Fighting against to Becoming with: Viruses as Companion Species,” HAL: Open Science, June 1, 2017 →.