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? Since 2009, need and care and desire and admiration have
been cross-examined, called as witness, put on parole, and made the
subject of caring inquiry by e-flux journal authors. These writings
have now been collected to form this comprehensive volume.
**Contributors
**Paul Chan, Keti Chukhrov, Cluster, Antke Engel, Hu Fang, Brian Kuan
Wood, Lee Mackinnon, Chus Martínez, Tavi Meraud, Fred Moten and Stefano
Harney, Elizabeth A. Povinelli and Kim Turcot DiFruscia, Paul B.
Preciado, Martha Rosler, Virginia Solomon, Jalal Toufic, Jan Verwoert,
Slavoj Zizek
Series edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Kaye Cain-Nielsen,
Stephen Squibb, Anton Vidokle
