Love in contemporary technoculture

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Label

Love in contemporary technoculture

Statement of responsibility

Ania Malinowska

Creator

• Malinowska, Ania, 1979-

Subject

• Love -- Social aspects
• Technology -- Social aspects

Language

eng

Summary

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.--

Member of

• Cambridge elements, Elements in histories of emotions and the senses,

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Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Cambridge elements. Elements in histories of emotions and the senses,
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks