Love in Contemporary Technoculture

This Element explains love with technologies in ways that go beyond traditional approaches to technologically mediated bodies and emotions.

Ania Malinowska (Author)

9781108813648, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 March 2022

75 pages
22.8 x 15.3 x 0.5 cm, 0.14 kg

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. Analysing 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.

Swerve (Introduction)
1. Subjects (The Technologized Other)
2. Spells (Cybernetics of Feeling)
3. Scenes (Emotional Techno-Spatiality)
4. Soma (The Intangible Connect)
5. Speeds (Affective Temporalities)
6. (Post)Sript (Conclusion)
References.

Subject Areas: Social & political philosophy [HPS], Philosophy of mind [HPM], Social & cultural history [HBTB]