Preface Introduction- Contemporary Closeness: strangeness in ecological, literary and technological intimacies 1. Elemental Intimacy and Pathetic Facticity: reflections on sad planets 2. Desire in a Time of Extinction: intimacy with taxidermy in contemporary french Fiction 3. Rethinking Opacity in Intimacy: Lessons from Água Viva 4. Intimate Confinement: Affective Atmospheres and Enforced Intimacies in COVID-19 Era Fiction 5. Strange/r/ness: (Post)digital Intimacies in Uncanny Worlds 6. Technical Bodies: rethinking eros and technology after the posthuman 7. All That Is Solid Melts Into Aerial Karate: Environmentality, Strange Intimacy, and the Banal Nonconscious