"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…
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Love Matters -- PART I: Material Love -- 1 Love Materialism: Technologies of Feeling in the 'Post-Material' World (An Interview) -- 2 Love among Objects: Poetr…
"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…
"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…
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Popular Life of Things -- PART I: Theorizing the Popular and the Material -- 1 Culture: The 'Popular' and the 'Material' -- 2 Cultural Materialisms and Popu…
This book critically approaches contemporary meanings of materiality and discuses ways in which we understand, experience, and engage with objects through popular culture in our private, social and professional lives. Appropriating Arjun Appadurai's famous phrase: "the social li…
Pt. I. Theorizing the popular and the material -- pt. II. From material media to digital materiality -- pt. III. The agency of things and the negotiation of meaning -- pt. IV. Popular narratives and material culture -- pt. V. Material culture and the creative self.
This book critically approaches contemporary meanings of materiality and discuses ways in which we understand, experience, and engage with objects through popular culture in our private, social and professional lives. Appropriating Arjun Appadurai's famous phrase: "the social li…
