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This essay is based on a cyber autoethnographic research I have conducted on Hornet, a geosocial networking application (GNA) created for gay and bisexual men, without establishing a clear-cut distinction between my identity as a user and that as a researcher. Here I discuss how feminist and queer autoethnography in and of cybercultures can refrain from objectifying or exploiting others by enabling research relations that (a) are not hierarchical, (b) disturb the researcher/researched binary, (c) embrace the impersonal ethics of cruising, and (d) do not shy away from recognizing the role of the researcher's body unlike the conventional (masculine) researcher who allegedly has no emotional, erotic, or bodily presence within the field or in the research. I also address cruising as a queer autoethnographic method, while uncovering the methodological and ethical implications of doing autoethnography in a cyberfield that is libidinally invested.

Alaska officials are understandably thrilled that President Biden signed legislation on May 24 that greatly helps cruising resume this summer in the 49th state. The bill lets large, foreign-flagged ships sail to Alaska from the U.S. without calling at a foreign port, usually Vancouver or Victoria, Canada. The Alaska Tourism Restoration Act temporarily waves the Passenger Vessel Services Act of 1886 until Canadas ban on cruise ships in its waters is lifted or expires on Feb. 28, 2022.

In this article, I challenge a focus in digital anthropology on the integration of media into everyday life. Korean queer men's experience on geosocial applications suggests that integration is not a neutral methodology but is rather a locally negotiated concern, a management of the connection between spaces. I use the example of the sauna to illustrate that the urban structure of Seoul is frequently orientated around semi-public rooms or bang that are imagined as insulated from the rest of society. The rise of geosocial cruising applications, with their tendency to connect and unite arenas that should be kept apart, have resulted in anxiety over the exposure of men to an uncontrollable totality of social relations.

Nos ocupamos aquí de cómo se produce y comprende la publicidad del espacio público y de cómo dicha producción y comprensión repercute normativa y performativamente sobre los usuarios de aquel. El enfoque que hemos escogido pretende comentar estos aspectos con la ayuda de las etnografías que se han venido realizando en los últimos tiempos sobre el cruising, por cuanto esta actividad, que implica una apropiación furtiva de determinados espacios públicos para el desarrollo de actividades sexuales anónimas entre hombres, ofrece un observatorio privilegiado del desfase entre el espacio público como dispositivo performativo y los agentes, que no siempre son meramente moldeados por tales dispositivos. Encontramos en esta práctica una ventana privilegiada para el análisis de la forma en que lo público y lo privado son construidos espacial y conceptualmente en la dialéctica entre marcos morales y prácticas subjetivas.

Queerness as horizon : utopian hermeneutics in the face of gay pragmatism -- Ghosts of public sex : utopian longings, queer memories -- The future is in the present : sexual avant-gardes and the performance of utopia -- Gesture, ephemera, and queer feeling : approaching kevin aviance -- Cruising the toilet : Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka, radical black traditions, and queer futurity -- Stages : queers, punks, and the utopian performative -- Utopia's seating chart : Ray Johnson, Jill Johnston, and queer intermedia as system -- Just like heaven : queer utopian art and the aesthetic dimension -- A jet out the window : Fred Herko's incandescent illumination -- After Jack : queer failure, queer virtuousity -- Conclusion: "Take ecstasy with me" -- Appendix I: Race, sex, and the incommensurate: Gary Fisher with Eve Kosofsky Sedwick -- Appendix II: Hope in the face of heartbreak -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author.

The topic of this paper concerns the analysis of river cruising in Europe and Croatia in order to explain problems affecting this kind of tourist product. There are a lot of possibilities to use rivers to complete the whole tourist experience, which is a top priority for the Croatian budget. This paper analyzes the current state of river cruising in Croatia, the types of ships used, the different types of users, the main reason for the poor state of river cruising in Croatia, and possible solutions Croatia can introduce in order to revitalize river cruising.