Touching matters: Affective entanglements in Corona time
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2021Author
Bozalek, Vivienne
Newfield, Denise
Romano, Nike
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This article troubles touch as requiring embodied proximity, through an affective account of virtual touch during coronatime.
Interested in doing academia differently, we started an online Barad readingwriting group from different locations. The
coronatime void was not a vacuum, but a plenitude of possibilities for intimacy, pedagogy, learning, creativity, and adventure.
Although physically apart, we met daily through Zoom, and we touched and were touched by each other and the texts
we read. A montage of writing fragments and a collective artwork, based on the Massive_Micro project, highlight virtual
touching. Undone, redone, and reconfigured, we became a diffractive human/nonhuman multiplicity.