Full Description
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.
Contents
Introduction: Love Matters
Anna Malinowska and Michael Gratzke
Part I: Material Love
1. Love Materialism. Technologies of Feeling in the Post-Material World (An Interview)
Dominic Pettman
2. Love Among Objects: Poetry and Time in Light of the Phenomenology of Values
Jacek Mydla
3. Love is Tender: A Critical Approach to Pansexualism
Julie Reshe
Part II: Affective Connections. Materializing the Amorous
4. Between the Covers: Couples Making Books Together as a Practice of Love
Yvonne Clarke-Salt
5.Overcoming Absence: From Love Letters to Skype
Camilla Skovbjerg Padlam
6.The Matter of Kissing
Anna Malinowska
Part III: Objectified Amour: Representation and Social Practice
7. The Rise and Fall of 'Emotional Capitalism': Consumerism and Materialities of Love in Dystopian Works by Thomas Melle, Leif Randt and Gary Shteyngart
Michael Gratzke
8. Reifying Innocence: Material Contexts of Love in The Age of Innocence and The Museum of Innocence
Hulya Yagcioglu
9.Organic Love: Reclaiming Solidity Through Nature and Farming
Karolina Lebek
10.(Dis)Affectionate Fetishism: Dispossessed Love in Othello and Late Modernity
Adrian Howe
Part IV: Affectionate Subjectivity
11. Exploring Maternal Affective Investments: Mary Kelly's Post-Partum Document (1973-79) and the Material Narrative of Love
Justyna Wierzchowska
12. The Amorous Frenzy of Things: Georges Bataille's Basely Material Love
Michał Krzykawski
13. The Queer Love Life of Photo(n)s
Tomasz Sikora
Part V: Creating Forms of Love
14. Embodied Soulmarks and Social Expectations: The Materialization of Romantic Love in Soulmate AU Fiction
Kinga Kowalska
15. Citizen Snake: Uncoiling Human-Bindings for Life
Suzan Pyke
16. Reconfigured Families: Stories About Love
Michele Ellmitt
17. As a Matter of Love: A Short Dialogue on Love Made Material
Francesca Rendle-Short and Melody Ellis
