Giddens, Circularity, Flirting

8.30 earlier this morning. Coming into Denney Hall, home of the English Department at OSU, where DMAC is being hosted, I took the elevator up to the third floor, after getting directions from a cute young man. He rode up with me, smiling all the way, clearly starting to flirt a little bit. What a wonderful way to begin DMAC. And appropriate. After all, my project is somewhat about connectivity, particularly queer connectivity. What happens when we connect sexually over the Internet? More basically, what does connecting sexually over the Internet mean? As a cyborg, how can/do/may I extend myself sexually through the new communications technologies? And as Giddens describes, how does the circularity of our experiences, the push/pull of us with the world, circle back and render us changed in our making on the world? The kid in the elevator, pushing, pulling, making me in the flirting. Theory is SO cool...