Disrupted Knowledge

Tina Sikka is Reader in Technoscience and Intersectional Justice at Newcastle University, UK. She has published two monographs and several articles on a range of topics including gender, race, and health/environmental science; sexual ethics; restorative justice; and continental philosophy.Gareth Longstaff is Lecturer in Media & Cultural Studies at Newcastle University, UK. His research is connected to queer theory, history, archiving, and the contours of how this relates to gay male sexuality, celebrity, pornography and the self. In his book Celebrity, Pornography, and the Politics of Desire he engages and applies this approach to self-representational media, pornography/sexual representation, and digital/networked archives of desire.Steve Walls is Lecturer in Media & Cultural Studies at Newcastle University, UK. He has previously published Examining Male Service Work: Gendered and Sexualised Aesthetics. His research/scholarship explores advertising and consumption, fashion communications, masculinities and sexuality.

• AcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: ‘Then, There and Everywhere’ – Situating Disrupted KnowledgeTina Sikka, Gareth Longstaff, and Steve Walls1 ‘Pubs, Primark & Pasta-Making Machines’: Social Class, the ‘Covidiot’ & Neoliberal Narratives of Consumer PracticeSteve Walls2 ‘A Huge Social Experiment’: Postdigital Social Connectivity under Lockdown ConditionsDeborah Chambers3 The Colour of Technology: Covid-19, Race, and the Pulse OximeterTina Sikka4 The Pedagogy of the Distressed: Truth-Twisters and Toxification of Higher EducationJoss Hands5 ‘This Is Britain, Get a Grip’: Race and Racism in Britain TodayDavid Bates6 Traditional Chinese Medicine Is Fake: Politicised Medical Commentaries in China in the covid -19 PandemicAltman Yuzhu Peng7 Representing the Stasi: Archives, Knowledge, and Citizenship in the Former German Democratic RepublicAlexander D. Brown and Joanne Sayner8 (Not) Being the ‘Cool Disabled Person’: Queering / Cripping Postfeminist Girlhood on Social MediaSarah Hill9 ‘Self, Self, Self’: Masculine Modes of Sexual Self-representation and the Disruptive Politics of Jouissance on OnlyFans.comGareth Longstaff10 Pandemic Dating: Masculinity, Dating Practice and Risk within the Context of Covid-19Abbey Couchman11 Post-lockdown Sex: Uncertain Intimacies, Cultures of Desire, and UK Sex ClubsChris Haywood12 Pain and Suffering, Uterus Trumpets and the Wild Ride: Autoethnographic Aca-Fandom, Para-Social Relationships and Diane PodcastMichael Waugh13 ‘Standing in Your Cardigan’: Evocative Objects, Ordinary Intensities, and Queer Sociality in the Swiftian Pop SongJames Barker, Richard Elliott, and Gareth Longstaff14 My Doubtful Cézanne Assembling Emergent Knowledges of Matter and Mattering through Painting-by-Numbers and Autoethnography during CovidBriony A. CarlinConclusionTina Sikka, Gareth Longstaff, and Steve WallsIndex