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The Materiality of Love “This compelling collection of essays captures the new directions that post-millennial research on love (romantic and otherwise) has taken and represents a notable break with those philosophical and psychoanalytic traditions that have monopolised the ‘enigma’ of love for so long. By demonstrating the extent to which cultural objects – and other material processes – shape the practice of our affective relationships, the 18 orig- inal chapters gathered together here provide a significant re- evaluation of what love means in the twenty-first century.” —Lynne Pearce, Lancaster University, UK Drawing on love studies and research in material cultures, this book seeks to re-examine love through materiality studies, especially their re- cent 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. Anna Malinowska is Assistant Professor in literary and cultural studies at the Institute of English Cultures and Literatures (IECL), University of Silesia, Poland. Michael Gratzke is Professor of German and Comparative Literature and Associate Dean for Research at the University of Hull in England. Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies For a full list of titles in this series, please visit www.routledge.com. 103 The Trauma Graphic Novel Andrés Romero-Jódar 104 Politics, Media and Democracy in Australia Public and Producer Perceptions of the Political Public Sphere Brian McNair, Terry Flew, Stephen Harrington, and Adam Swift 105 Spectral Spaces and Hauntings Edited by Christina Lee 106 Affective Sexual Pedagogies in Film and Television Kyra Clarke 107 Tracing the Borders of Spanish Horror Cinema and Television Edited by Jorge Marí 108 Screen Comedy and Online Audiences Inger-Lise Kalviknes Bore 109 Media Representations of Anti-Austerity Protests in the EU Grievances, Identities and Agency Edited by Tao Papaioannou and Suman Gupta 110 Media Practices, Social Movements, and Performativity Transdisciplinary Approaches Edited by Susanne Foellmer, Margreth Lünenborg, and Christoph Raetzsch 111 The Dark Side of Camp Aesthetics Queer Economies of Dirt, Dust and Patina Edited by Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Georg Vogt, and Franziska Bergmann 112 The Materiality of Love Essays on Affection and Cultural Practice Edited by Anna Malinowska and Michael Gratzke The Materiality of Love Essays on Affection and Cultural Practice Edited by Anna Malinowska and Michael Gratzke First published 2018 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 and by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2018 Taylor & Francis The right of the editors to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data CIP data has been applied for. ISBN: 978-0-415-78382-8 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-22863-1 (ebk) Typeset in Sabon by codeMantra Contents List of Figures ix Acknowledgements xi Introduction: Love Matters 1 ANNA MALINOWSKA AND MICHAEL GRATZKE PART I Material Love 11 1 Love Materialism: Technologies of Feeling in the ‘Post-Material’ World (An Interview) 13 DOMINIC PETTMAN 2 Love among Objects: Poetry and Time in Light of the Phenomenology of Values 25 JACEK MYDLA 3 Love Is Tender: A Critical Approach to Pansexualism 39 JULIE RESHE PART II Affective Connections: Materializing the Amorous 53 4 Between the Covers: Couples Making Books Together as a Practice of Love 55 YVONNE CLARKE-SALT vi Contents 5 Overcoming Absence: From Love Letters to Skype 68 CAMILLA SKOVBJERG PALDAM 6 The Matter of Kissing 85 ANNA MALINOWSKA PART III Objectified Amour: Representation and Social Practice 99 7 The Rise and Fall of “Emotional Capitalism”: Consumerism and Materialities of Love in Dystopian Works by Thomas Melle, Leif Randt and Gary Shteyngart 101 MICHAEL GRATZKE 8 Reifying Innocence: Material Contexts of Love in The Age of Innocence and The Museum of Innocence 118 HULYA YAGCIOGLU 9 Organic Love: Reclaiming Solidity through Nature and Farming 131 KAROLINA LEBEK 10 (Dis) Affectionate Fetishism—Dispossessed Love in Othello and Late Modernity 145 ADRIAN HOWE PART IV Affectionate Subjectivity 161 11 Exploring Maternal Affective Investments: Mary Kelly’s Post-Partum Document (1973–79) and the Material Narrative of Love 163 JUSTYNA WIERZCHOWSKA 12 The Amorous Frenzy of Things: Georges Bataille’s Basely Material Love 177 MICHAŁ KRZYKAWSKI 13 The Queer Love Life of Photo(n)s 193 TOMASZ SIKORA Contents vii PART V Creating Forms of Love 209 14 Embodied Soulmarks and Social Expectations: The Materialization of Romantic Love in Soulmate AU Fanfiction 211 KINGA KOWALSKA 15 Citizen Snake: Uncoiling Human-Bindings for Life 223 SUSAN PYKE 16 Reconfigured Families: Stories about Love 237 MICHELLE ELMITT 17 As a Matter of Love: A Short Dialogue on Love Made Material 252 FRANCESCA RENDLE-SHORT AND MELODY ELLIS List of Contributors 269 Index 273 This page intentionally left blank List of Figures 13.1 Image one (by Tomasz Sikora) 195 13.2 Image two (by Tomasz Sikora) 198 13.3 Image three (by Tomasz Sikora) 200 13.4 Image four (by Tomasz Sikora) 202 13.5 Image five (by Tomasz Sikora) 204
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