Love in Contemporary Technoculture

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Love in Contemporary Technoculture

Social and cultural history Philosophy of mind Social and political philosophy History of ideas

Author: Ania Malinowska

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Collection: Elements in Histories of Emotions and the Senses

Language: English

Published by: Cambridge University Press

Published on: 31 March 2022

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 2 Mb

ISBN: 9781108865425


Environment of Loving in Contemporary Technoculture

This element outlines the environments of loving in contemporary technoculture and explains the changes in the manner of feelings (including the experience of senses, spaces, and temporalities) in technologically mediated relationships.

Synchronic and retrospective in its approach, this element defines affection (romance, companionship, intimacy, etc.) in the reality marked by the material and affective "intangibility" that has emerged from the rise of digitalism and technological advancement.

Analyzing the (re)constructions of intimacy, it describes our sensual and somatic experiences in conditions where the human body, believed to be extending itself by means of the media and technological devices, is in fact the extension of the media and their technologies.

It is a study that outlines shifts and continuums in the "practices of togetherness" and which critically rereads late modern paradigms of emotional and affective experiences, filling a gap in the existing critical approaches to technological and technologized love.

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