Kane is currently researching relations between technologies, spaces, bodies, practices and objects in the materialization of HIV/AIDS, sexual culture and the experience of drugs. As part of an ARC Discovery Grant on Changing Spaces of HIV Prevention, he is exploring the impact of online hook-up devices on gay culture, subjectivities and practices. In a related project, he explores how individuals and entities become subjects of HIV prevention in the context of new legal and biomedical developments. In other research, he concerned with the impact of policing practices on the changing materialization of drug problems, including the frames used to understand and grasp such processes. In each of these projects, he draws on affect theory, science and technology studies, queer theory and object-oriented process studies to produce new ways of attending to socio-material events and processes. A central concern running through his work is the enactment of effective care practices that maximize pleasure
