[Updated 04/07/2026]

Well, as usual, it has been a packed few weeks. But, at last, my self-imposed over-scheduling now draws to a close.

This has been a week of reflection on the work I’ve done over the course of the semester, not just organizing events and attending conferences, but building out dissertation chapters and rethinking my prospectus in order to have content for all of these events and presentations. What is most heartening in all of this is the vigorous interest and excitement my research receives both from within and outside of the community. I think now I have a complete and sufficiently complex research approach and have meaningfully thought through the various elements of the diss in such a way that I can completely revise my prospectus with a radically (in the Brinkema sense) new structure and vocabulary.

So, when I ask “How do networked sexual devices reorganize the boundaries between body, computation, and community, and what does critical making reveal about those reorganizations that discourse alone cannot?” I’m trying to get at the embodied and operational ways in which sex has become ecological, distributed across bodies, material, and network. A complex of pleasure and identity under constant revision but materially grounded. In this sense, the chastity cage is an important agent in the construction of gendered queer body, the pup hood in a becoming animal that challenges human boundaries and taxa, the pishock in the production of agentic action disrupting pleasure and pain. In other words, the chastity cage makes the role of the bodily attachment in my argument visible, the pup hood the construction of humanness in my argument visible, and the pishock the distributed agentic action of pain-pleasure in my argument visible.