![]() ![]() Constant testing and monitoring of behaviour were to be used as a technique to contain the virus. Gay populations were to be surveilled by medical institutions. The paper argues the crisis instantiated a logic of quarantine and containment which required gay men to insert themselves into an ascetic discourse and conduct, engaging only in isolated sexual practices. The idea of naked bodies presenting themselves before others while administering powerful pharmaceuticals – quarantined and isolated – expresses a recurrence of the HIV/AIDS crisis. Using ethnographic observations of gay men smoking meth through an online meeting software called Zoom, this paper attempts to synthesise pharmaceutical insight with Freudian and Foucauldian theory. This paper advances the argument that gay men using online meeting spaces to smoke methamphetamine together are re-enacting the HIV/AIDS crisis.
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