The Gay Science

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.

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).

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