@article{Møller_2022, title={Intimacy collapse: Temporality, pleasure, and embodiment in gay hook-up app use}, volume={27}, url={https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/10812}, DOI={10.5210/fm.v27i1.10812}, abstractNote={<p>This article maps key tensions in contemporary, mediatized gay male sexual culture by focusing on hook-up app use. Based on data generated through a situated and visual interview technique, the paper gather experiences from hook-up app users in the U.K. Concerned with how understandings and usage of hook-up apps are bound up with normative evaluations of their ability to produce “good” intimacy, I suggest integrating analysis of practice and infrastructural capacities with critical intimacy theory. This is captured in the concept <em>intimacy collapse</em> of which I examine three types: one between <em>immediacy and foresight</em>, another between <em>organic and representational pleasure objects</em>, and a third between <em>personal and social acts of looking</em>. The analysis demonstrates that intimacy collapses in hook-up apps produce new (in)visibilities, anxieties and opportunities that are distributed unevenly across the disparate online cultures and identities that make up gay culture.</p>}, number={1}, journal={First Monday}, author={Møller, Kristian}, year={2022}, month={Jan.} }