A quick note that I’m giving a presentation about my PhD research at this conference at the end of the week, at the Royal College of Art. I’ll talk about “queerly theorising affect in relation to digital devices” - that is, broadly arguing that we often feel things about inanimate objects that contradict our ideas about what’s proper or normal, and that we should be alive to those feelings in order to get a fuller picture of what it might mean for a videogame to make us feel something.

Intimaterial is a transdisciplinary event that mingles the amorous and the clinical, the sexual and the industrial, the textual and the bestial, to expose contemporary possibilities and dilemmas of material intimacy. Four keynote speakers at the forefront of their respective, divergent fields will punctuate two days of exploration of critical and experimental investigation. Our scope of intimate attentions will be wide ranging, encompass practitioners from medical, technological, art and design, historical, poetics and fetish communities.