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The Materiality of Love
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ABSTRACT
Drawing on love studies and research in material cultures, this book seeks to re-examine love through materiality studies, especially their recent incarnations, new materialism and object-oriented philosophy, to spark a debate on the relationship between love, objects and forms of materializing affection. It focuses on love as a material form and traces connections between feelings and materiality, especially in relation to the changing notion of the material as marked by digital culture, as well as the developments in understanding the nature of non-human affect. It provides insight into how materiality, in its broadest sense, impacts the understanding of the meanings and practices of love today and reversely, how love contributes to the production and transformation of the material world.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|41 pages
Material Love
chapter 1|14 pages
Love Materialism
chapter 2|14 pages
Love among Objects
part II|46 pages
Affective Connections
chapter 4|15 pages
Between the Covers
part III|61 pages
Objectified Amour
chapter 7|19 pages
The Rise and Fall of “Emotional Capitalism”
chapter 8|13 pages
Reifying Innocence
chapter 10|15 pages
(Dis) Affectionate Fetishism—Dispossessed Love in Othello and Late Modernity
part IV|48 pages
Affectionate Subjectivity
chapter 11|16 pages
Exploring Maternal Affective Investments
chapter 12|16 pages
The Amorous Frenzy of Things
part V|59 pages
Creating Forms of Love