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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Alfie Bown (Royal Holloway University London)Publisher: Pluto Press Imprint: Pluto Press Weight: 0.354kg ISBN: 9780745344881ISBN 10: 0745344887 Pages: 160 Publication Date: 20 May 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Grindr Saga 1. Data Love 2. The Digital Libidinal City 3. Simulation and Stimulation: from Games to Porn 4. The Match: Metaphor vs Metonymy Conclusion: Ready Worker OneReviews'If you want a glimpse into how our desires are manufactured under our new techno-feudal order, and how love can prove our last defence, read Alfie Bown's 'Dream Lovers'' -- Yanis Varoufakis 'If you want a glimpse into how our desires are manufactured under our new techno-feudal order, and how love can prove our last defence, read Alfie Bown's 'Dream Lovers'' -- Yanis Varoufakis 'Alfie Bown is one of the smartest writers around. Dream Lovers is an exciting, astute analysis of how our capacity for desire and reverie has been slotted into the grooves of digital capitalism, and made to work for profit - from porn to Pokemon' -- Richard Seymour, author of 'The Twittering Machine' 'A brisk and engaging examination of the gamification of love, a sharp analysis of contemporary technopolitics and of the synthetic quality of desire' -- Helen Hester, Professor of Gender, Technology and Cultural Politics at the University of West London, and author of 'After Work: The Fight for Free Time' with Nick Srnicek 'Informative, entertaining and devastating all at once. Extremely well-argued and persuasive, it clearly shows how the technologies that promise to help us find love, or even just sex, are also perfectly designed to exploit us at our most vulnerable' -- Anouchka Grose, writer and psychoanalyst at the Centre for Freudian Analysis and Research 'When love is being turned into NFTs and algorithms know more about our desires than ourselves, we should subject this new libidinal economy to ruthless analysis. Dream Lovers does precisely this in an erudite and exciting way' -- Srecko Horvat, author of 'The Radicality of Love' Author InformationAlfie Bown is a Lecturer in Digital Media at Royal Holloway University London. He is a founding editor of 1968 Press and his journalism has appeared in Tribune, New Statesman, Paris Review and the Guardian. His other books include The Playstation Dreamworld and Post-Memes: Seizing the Memes of Production. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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