Data Dating: Love, Technology, Desire

Data Dating: Love,Technology, and Desire is a comprehensive study of love and intimacy under digitalism that explores the construction of love and its practices in the time of digitally mediated relationships. It offers an extensive critical analysis of technologized romance and provides an insight into the codification, execution, deployment, and evolution of patterns of togetherness in the Tamagotchi era. The collection includes landmark works of new media art and is authored by recognized researchers in the field of love, emotion, media, technology, and cultural studies. It offers a unique and original critical approach that combines artistic practice and cultural criticism to comment upon the transformation of human relationships and emotional standards under technological development.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 12 February 2024
Publisher: Intellect Books

Data Dating: Love,Technology and Desire is a comprehensive exploration of love and intimacy in the digital age, delving into the complex dynamics of emotions and desire in the high-tech and media-driven landscapes of contemporary societies. Presented in ten chapters and ten works of new media art, this collection offers a critical analysis of technologized romance, as well as an insightful glimpse into the codification, execution, deployment, and evolution of patterns of togetherness in the so-called Tamagotchi era.

The chapters engage in the challenges posed by the new material planes that have emerged from the abstraction of networked communication and the dispersion of traditional notions of physicality. They closely examine the templates of contemporary fantasy, fetish, and eroticism, as shaped by platform capitalism, datafication, and new commodity cultures. Here, self-promotion for bonding relies on the new possibilities offered by new media self-mediation formats.

At the heart of the analysis lies the carbon-silicon dynamics of love in the contemporary era, practiced within the environment where screens, interfaces, algorithms, data protocols, and non-organic objects of affection and affect delineate, organize, and program the contours of emotional relationships.

Through a multidisciplinary approach, Data Dating: Love,Technology and Desire sheds light on the intricate interplay between technology, love, and desire, offering valuable insights into the evolving nature of human connections in the digital age.

Dimension: 244 x 170 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781789389524