Malinowska A., Gratzke M. (eds.) The Materiality of Love. Essays on affection and cultural practice

N.Y.: Taylor & Francis, 2018. — 283 p. — ISBN: 978-1-315-22863-1The intention of this book is to critically trace and rehearse connections between love and materiality—the latter understood as anything that solidifies the emotion of loving in a real or fictional life. Love and matter are linked in firm but complex, and often implicit, ways. Love is a fun-damental set of practices and emotions which cuts through and shapes many areas of existence, from relationships to interactions to social or-ganization. Concurrently, it feels intangible and elusive. Matter on the other hand, is what substantiates elusiveness around us, reifying senses, states, thoughts and ideas that connect with us through things (however broadly understood).In this volume we concern ourselves with the issue of how love ma-terializes through objects (practices, discourses, gestures, content, and items) in times that are believed to bring about an increasing liquefac-tion of feelings (Bauman 2003). We do not intend to provide a thorough study of love’s material history; rather, we are interested in recent mate-rial manifestations of love that have developed along the changing idea of materiality (e.g. new materialism), which in many ways has affected private and social forms of loving.Material love
Affective connections: materializing the amorous
Objectified amour: representation and social practice
Creating forms of love