Kevin Gotkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 193356 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin Gotkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin |
| FAMILY NAME | Gotkin |
| SIGNATURE | GOTKIN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Remote Access
Since 2020, Kevin Gotkin has spearheaded disability nightlife events for the virtual Remote Access series for the Critical Design Lab, a multidisciplinary and multi-institution arts and design collaborative. Aimi Hamraie directs the Critical Design Lab and coined the term crip technoscience. Hamraie interviews Gotkin about the genesis of this disability arts and culture party and how it has evolved into an ongoing experiment in critical access-ma…
Wikipedia and the politics of openness
Pornography's media breakdown
In this article I try out a number of methodological tacks to understand what happens when porn stops working. I take the advent of gay male VHS porn in the late 1970s/early 1980s for my trials: a history of material technology approach that imagines ‘wear’ as analytic category; an apparatus theory analysis that takes frustration as a central (and not peripheral or accidental) experience of porn-viewing; and an interview approach that must reckon…
Openings
This article serves as one of the supplementary pieces of this special issue on "Mapping Queer Bioethics," in which we take a solipsistic turn to "map" the Journal of Homosexuality itself. Here, the author examines Volume 1, Issue 1 of the Journal of Homosexuality and asks whether the journal's first contributors might reveal a historically problematic relationship whereby the categories of front-line LGBT health advocates in the 1970s might be i…
Serial, Seriality, and the Possibilities for the Podcast Format
Serial, Seriality, and the Possibilities for the Podcast Format
Wikipedia and the politics of openness
Pornography's media breakdown
In this article I try out a number of methodological tacks to understand what happens when porn stops working. I take the advent of gay male VHS porn in the late 1970s/early 1980s for my trials: a history of material technology approach that imagines ‘wear’ as analytic category; an apparatus theory analysis that takes frustration as a central (and not peripheral or accidental) experience of porn-viewing; and an interview approach that must reckon…
Openings
This article serves as one of the supplementary pieces of this special issue on "Mapping Queer Bioethics," in which we take a solipsistic turn to "map" the Journal of Homosexuality itself. Here, the author examines Volume 1, Issue 1 of the Journal of Homosexuality and asks whether the journal's first contributors might reveal a historically problematic relationship whereby the categories of front-line LGBT health advocates in the 1970s might be i…
Remote Access
Since 2020, Kevin Gotkin has spearheaded disability nightlife events for the virtual Remote Access series for the Critical Design Lab, a multidisciplinary and multi-institution arts and design collaborative. Aimi Hamraie directs the Critical Design Lab and coined the term crip technoscience. Hamraie interviews Gotkin about the genesis of this disability arts and culture party and how it has evolved into an ongoing experiment in critical access-ma…
Computer Science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Digital Games and Media (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Accidental (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (1 work)