Touching matters: Affective entanglements in Corona time
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Date
2021
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SAGE Publications
Abstract
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.
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Reading group, COVID-19, Entanglements, Virtual touch, Coronatime
Citation
Bozalek, V .et al. (2021) .Touching matters: Affective entanglements in Corona time . Qualitative Inquiry, 27(7), 844�852. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800420960167