Depuis 2009, e-flux journal a publié au sein de son mensuel un certain nombre d'articles ayant pour sujet l'amour et ses variations (l'affection, le désir, l'intimité…). Ces textes ont été rassemblés pour former ce recueil aux contributeurs prestigieux.
It is often said that we no longer have an addressee for our political demands. But that's not true. We have each other. What we can no longer get from the state, the party, the union, the boss, we ask for from one another. And we provide. Lacan famously defined love as giving something you don't have to someone who doesn't want it. But love is more than a YouTube link or a URL. Love's joy is not to be found in fulfillment, it is to be found in recognition: even though I can never return what was taken away from you, I may be the only person alive who knows what it is.
In our present times—post-human, post-reality, or maybe pre-internet, post-it, pre-collapse, pre-fabricated by algorithms—what does love have to do with it?
