Acknowledgments
He thanks Kimberlee Pérez, Charles E. Morris, III, and Cara A. Finnegan for their engagement with this essay
Notes
1. “Structures of feeling” is Raymond Williams's term. See Williams, Marxism and Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977). Williams's notion of “structures of feeling” undergirds much of the scholarship taking the affective turn.
2. How we “report” ourselves to AIDS is Alex Preda's question. See Preda, AIDS, Rhetoric, and Medical Knowledge (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 231.
3. See also Cindy Patton, Fatal Advice: How Safe-Sex Education Went Wrong (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996), 84–85.
4. AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, http://www.actupny.org/.
5. For a brief discussion of the difference between subject and abject positions, see Judith Butler, “Introduction,” in Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of “Sex” (New York: Routledge, 1993), 1–4.
6. On seronegatives’ identification with seropositive people, see also Gould 333–36, 344 (especially Gould's discussion in footnote 12).
7. “Repetition with critical difference” derives from Linda Hutcheon, A Theory of Parody: The Teachings of Twentieth-Century Art Forms (New York: Methuen, 1985), 20.